John Clinger, Jr.
John Clinger, Jr., farmer, of Manchester, was born February 20, 1844. His father was John and his mother Mary (Mowrar) Clinger. His grandfather, Abraham Clinger, was born in Pennsylvania. His father, John Clinger, was born in Pennsylvania, February 19, 1815, and located in Adams County in 1832, coming down the Ohio River on a keel-boat. He landed at Manchester, and settled on a farm in Monroe Township, where he now resides. He married Mary Mowrar, daughter of Christian Mowrar, one of the first settlers of Adams County. Christian Mowrar came from Pennsylvania in 1792 and joined the Massie colony in the Stockade, where he remained till the treaty of Greenville. He and his wife lived to an extreme age. John Clinger, Senior, raised a family of three sons and three daughters, and after the death of his first wife in 1854, he married Susan Tucker. John Clinger, Jr., the subject of this sketch, received his education in the common schools of the county. He enlisted September 18, 1862, at the age of eighteen, in Company F, of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and served in that organization until the first of July, 1865 On the first of October, 1868, he married a daughter of Oliver Ashenhurst. Her father was born on the ocean on the passage from Ireland to America. Oliver Ashenhurst married Susan Parker, and located in Manchester, where he engaged in the milling business until his death, March 28, 1898. Mrs. Clinger is the only child of his first wife. Oliver Ashenhurst married for his second wife. Amy Phibbs, by whom he reared a family of nine children.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Clinger are: May Etta, wife of Stephen Thompson, of Manchester. Ohio; Leora Belle, in the employ of the Langdon Grocery Company at Maysville, Ky. William Oliver, who served in the war with Spain and is at present in the Philippines. Frank Arthur is a member of Company L. 22nd U. S. Infantry; Bertha Florence is the wife of Frank Fulton Foster, of Manchester, Ohio; Amy A., is at Middletown, Ohio, and Marguarite Lucretia is at home with her parents.
Mr. Clinger is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church at Island Creek. He is a Republican in his political views and as a citizen highly respected by all who know him.
From History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900