DAVID McCLOUD

    David McCloud, a farmer, was born in Adams County, Ohio, in April 1838, and is a son of John McCloud, a native of Ohio, and Laura Tinkham, his wife.  The latter was born at Barre, Vt., and when six years of age came to the West with her parents, Isaac and Cynthia (Snow) Tinkham who settled north of Worthington, Franklin County.  Mrs. Tinkham died near Columbus. and he afterward married again and moved to Indiana, where he died.  John and Laura McCloud had ten children that reached their majority, of whom seven are now living, our subject being the fourth son.  His maternal grandfather was a native of Vermont, and a soldier in the war of Independence.  The McCloud family moved to Delaware County, Ohio, thence to Madison County, thence to Indiana, thence, in 1859, to this county, and our subject located on his present farm in 1872.  In July 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, being at that time a Corporal.  He participated in the siege of Vicksburg and at Atlanta.  In the latter engagement receiving a flesh wound in the arm, on account of which he received a thirty-days' furlough.  Returning to his regiment, he served under Sherman in his march to the sea.  About the time of Hood's raid, he was retiring to the right and joined his command at Marietta, Ga.  He took part in the Grand Review at Washington, and was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, in August 1865.  On November 16, 1870, he married Miss Clara J. Morse, a daughter of Ray G. Morse, and by her has had four children, two living, viz.. Mertie A. and Laura B.  Mr. McCloud is a Republican in politics, and the owner of eighty-eight acres of valuable and productive land.