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D. P. Hume, farmer, was born in Marion County, Ohio, August 22, 1823, the son of James and Margaret (McWilliams) Hume. The father, born in Cumberland County, Penn., was the son of James, Sr., of Scotland, and was a farmer, coming to Ohio at an early date, and later to Indiana, where he died in 1863. The mother, born and reared in Cumberland County, was of Irish stock, and died in 1833, a member of the Presbyterian Church. When fifteen years old our subject left the Marion County, Ohio, farm, and went to Cumberland County, Penn., where for three years he was apprenticed to a black smith at Carlisle, and during this time attended school five months. He then worked in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio and Indiana about three years, and in 1848, with thirteen others, spent a year digging gold in the Sacramento Valley so successfully that he returned to New York, and Cumberland County, Penn., where he remained in business up to 1851. He then came to Jefferson County, and with Maj. S. M. Ferguson secured a contract for grading forty miles on the first division of the East Tennessee & Virginia Railway. After this was finished he went to South Carolina with mules, and then engaged in superintending a farm in Jefferson County, for M. A. Douglas, and later for Gen. Brazelton; but, on the outbreak of the war, his Union sentiments caused his dismissal from the farm. During the war he had charge of Gen. Brazelton’s mill at Beaver Creek. Since then he has farmed on his present farm of 300 acres, with success. He is a highly esteemed man, and has served as school commissioner. In 1860 he married Rebecca S. Thomas, born in Virginia in 1832, a daughter of Joseph Thomas. Six children, of five sons and two daughters, are living. His wife died December 19, 1884, a member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1885 he married Sarah A. Daily, born in this county, in 1830. Our subject and three of his sons at home are Presbyterians, but his wife is a Methodist.