Abraham Maxwell
Abraham Maxwell was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1825. Came with his father, Samuel Maxwell, to Shelby County in 1835. He was by trade a miller, and owned the mills on Mosquito Creek, where the Manning and Line mills now stand. In 1846 he married Melvina Vaughn. By this union there was born to them six. children, Polly A., Brezilla H., Loretta J., Edmund S., Franklin V , and William W.
Mr. Maxwell died in 1864. His widow still survives, and resides near the old homestead.Thompson Vaughn, the father of Mrs. M., was born in Virginia in 1791, and served as a soldier in the war of 1812. In 1811 he married Ann Dickensheets. There were born to them twelve children. Mrs. Maxwell, one of the twelve, was born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1827 (where her father had settled in 1815). Came with her parents to Shelby County in 1835.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883