David C. McCune
The manager of the largest farm in Fayette county is David C. McCune, who has for the past twenty-seven years been the superintendent of the Humphries Jones estate of eighteen hundred acres in Wayne township. The supervision of such an extensive tract of land requires ability of an exceptional kind and that Mr. McCune has been on the estate for more than a quarter of a century indicates that his work has been very satisfactory.
D. C. McCune, the son of Wallace and Amanda (Hill) McCune, was born October 30, 1862, in Jackson county, Ohio. His father was born in the same county and died of the typhoid fever while serving his country in the Civil War. His mother then married James Irwin. Wallace McCune and his wife were the parents of three children: An infant, Ferendas, and D. C. To James Irwin and wnfe were born eight children, Alice, Rebecca, William L., Charles, Bertha, Anna, James and Ethel.
The father of D. C. McCune died when he was a babe in arms and consequently he knows very little of the history of his father's family. He went to the district schools in Jackson county and remained at home until he was twenty years of age. He then came to Fayette county and began to work out by the month on farms in that county. He married at the age of twenty-one and at once went to the Selsor farm, where he lived one year. Such was his success as a farmer on this place that he was offered the management of the Jones estate and moved on to it in 1887. He has twelve men under his control the year around and raises more grain and stock than any farmer in the county. He has every modern convenience for advanced farming and handles evervthing on a large scale. For instance, he sells his live stock by the car load and thus is able to command the highest market price at all times.
Mr. McCune was married on Christmas eve, 1884, to Josie Yerian, the daughter of Allen and Marv (Reed) Yerian, natives of Jackson county. To this union there have been born ten children, Homer, Charles, William C, Elmer, Elva, Ollie, Herman, Leland M. and two who died in infancy. Homer married Myrtle Cramblet and has two children, Helen and Wayne. Charles married Ollie Kier and has tour children, Stanley, Thelma, Russell and Nellie. William C. married Jane Price and has two children, Forrest and Annie Lee. Elmer married Stella Hook. Elva is the wife of Herschel Fletcher, and has one daughter, Josie Belle.
The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and liberal contributors to its various needs. Politically, Mr. McCune is independent and his extensive agricultural interests have demanded all of his time and energy. He is a man who is interested in everything which pertains to the general welfare of his community and can always be depended upon to give his hearty support to all such movements. Personally, he is a genial and whole-souled man, who has a word of cheer for ever}'one and a man who is well liked by all who know him.
From History of Fayette County Ohio - Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frank M. Allen (1914, R. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.)