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WILLIAM EWING, JR., miller and postmaster at Ewing’s Mills, was born where he now resides, July 15, 1830. His paternal grandfather, William Ewing, came to what is now Ewing’s Mills, Moon and Robinson townships, and purchased six hundred acres on both sides of Montour creek. He was a millwright, and built a grist and saw-mill near where the present mill stands. He afterward put up and operated a woolen and saw-mill on the present site of the coke-works. He married Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, and both were members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was an elder. He died aged eighty-five years. They had four sons and two daughters, who lived to be men and women. Their eldest son, David K., born at Ewing’s Mills in 1795, died of cholera in 1845. He built the present mill at Ewing’s Mills post office; was married to Frances M. Woods, daughter of Rev. William Woods, and had four sons, of whom William is the only one living. The latter married, May 22, 1852, Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. John and Hannah (Scott) Young, of Robinson township. Mr. and Mrs. William Ewing have seven children living: David K., married to Laura Allen, and residing in Denver, Colo.; J. Y., who owns the store at Ewing’s Mills, married to Jennie Harbison; Sarah W., wife of Matthew Phillips, of Moon township; Hannah, wife of Frank Woods, in Bethel township; T. M. and Lizzie, at home, and Edwin E., assistant miller with his father. The parents are members of the Forest Grove Presbyterian Church.