History of Hamilton County Ohio
Biography of Daniel Isgrig
with
Portrait
page 311 & between pages 308 & 309
transcribed by Patti Graman


Daniel Isgrig

DANIEL ISGRIG.

William, the great-grandfather, came from England about the year 1725. He had two sons, Michael and Daniel, the last named being the grandfather of our subject. Mr. ISGRIG's father being born in the time of the Revolution gave him some opportunity of witnessing the consequences of the war. The Tories were troublesome, having burned his father's barn, and committing other depredations that caused fear and alarm to the family. After the war his father moved to the Alleghany mountains, eight miles above Fort Cumberland, and remained there until 1789, when the family removed to Maysville, Kentucky, going down the Monongahela and the Ohio rivers in a boat. The usual hardships of a pioneer life with the Indians as well as in many other respects, were experienced by the family, and as usual many tales of adventure and heroism could here be told. Suffice it to say Mr. ISGRIG's father was a bold and daring man, capable of enduring what would have overthrown most men, and withal was a strict man in his family, observing the Christian duties of a father and husband himself. In 1806 the family removed to Green township, Hamilton county, Ohio, where Daniel ISGRIG, the subject of this sketch was married, in the year 1817, to Miss Elizabeth McMAHON.

In 1831 he bought the present homestead, consisting of seventy-three acres, living for a time at Mr. Healthy, but at the above named time moved to the present homestead two miles north of Dent, on the Pleasant ridge. From here he moved to Taylor's creek, where he lived nine years, but returned in 1880.

In 1841 he was married the second time, his second wife's name being Mary UNDERWOOD, and from which union he was blessed with three children: Viola, the daughter of this wife, now Mrs. MARKS has her abode with her father; Robert, a son, was nine months in the war of the Rebellion, and a regular nine years after the - war. His third wife, Miss SEAL, is still living; from this union he is the father of one child, and of eighteen children in all.

Mr. ISGRIG is of a hardy, robust nature, has seldom experienced sickness during his long, eventful life, and has been a character of some position and influence during his time. His education was necessarily limited, having mastered the rudiments of an education more by sheer contact with the problems of life than from instruction - or in this do we find him unsuccessful. For thirty years and over he was the principal surveyor of his county, and during that period, but few roads or farms, and tracts of lands of his township have escaped from his glazing axe. He was also, many years, administrator, serving for different parties at different times. He was also for a number of years notary public, township trustee, etc., so that in summing up his life, we find him to have been a very useful and prominent citizen of his county.