Reverend I. N. McVay, a pastor of the M. P. Church in Pharisburg, in a son of Luther and Jane Patterson) McVay, natives of Pennsylvania, and was born in Washington County, Penn., June 30, 1810. On July 19, 1832, he was married in Clinton County, by William Antram, J. P., to Belinda, daughter of Robert and Henrietta (Fairfax) West, and a native of Brown County, Ohio, born January 30, 1811. They had eleven children, viz.: Jane, deceased, Robert, John, Polly Ann, Nancy C., deceased, Harrison W., Henrietta, Sallie, deceased, Martha Etta, Lavina, anti Isaac. Mr. McVay was raised as a farmer, but also worked at blacksmithing, carpentering, wagon making, boot and shoe making, coopering, masonry, etc. He has been it minister of the M. P. Church two score years, and in Pharisburg twenty-three years. He was a local preacher sixteen years. He cast his first vote for Gen. Jackson, for President, after which he was a Republican until recently he has become a Prohibitionist. He is a member of Mt. Carmel Lodge, No. 303, at Richwood.