Nathaniel McConnell    

NATHANIEL McCONNELL, farmer, post-office London, was born August 14, 1841, in Lawrence County, Penn., to John and Martha (Carlon) McConnell. He was educated in the common schools, and began for himself at the age of twenty-one years; He was married to Flora, a daughter of Alexander Campbell, of Lawrence County. He enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served nearly three years. May 6, 1864, he was taken prisoner at the battle of the Wilderness, was confined for a few days in a prison in Danville, Va., and with seventeen others he was transferred to Andersonville. The only two of this number to get out of the prison alive were Mr. McConnell and William O. Wood, of Ohio. They were taken from there to Florence, S.C., and in December, 1864, were paroled. After returning from the war, and somewhat recovering from the evil effects of horrible prison confinement, he engaged in farming. He bought, in 1867, 125 acres of land in Springfield Township, and has lived thereon ever since. He served as constable for one term, and has been school director. They have one daughter, Mary, and are rearing Joseph Campbell, a son of Mark Campbell, a brother of Mrs. McConnell. They are members of the Presbyterian Church of Leesburg, and he is a Democrat. Alexander Campbell was born in Huntingdon County, and married, in Lawrence County, Mary McWilliams, by whom he had John, Robert, Flora, Joseph, William, Hannah and Mark. The last named married Elizabeth, daughter of David Gilson, and had three children: Herman, dead; David A. and Joseph T. Mr. McConnell is a good citizen, and daily suffers the severest pains from the effect of his services in the defense of his country.

(Note: Since the above sketch was written Mr. McConnell died May 20, 1888).

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