McClaskey - E.P.
Captain EBENERZER PATRICK McCLASKEY
Source: Atlas of Montgomery County (Chicago: Beers, 1878) p 51
McCLASKEY, E.P., PO Darlington, Farmer, Sec 17, native of
Montgomery Co Ohio; settled in County 1834.
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Source: H. W. Beckwith History of Montgomery County, Indiana
Capt. E. P. McCLASKEY, farmer, Darlington, is a native of this
town- ship, and is now residing on the farm upon which he was
born. His parents, James and Nancy (POAGUE) McClaskey, are
natives of Kentucky, the former having come with his parents to
Washington County, Indiana, when twelve years old. From there
they removed to Montgomery County, settling, in the fall of 1830,
in Franklin township. Mr. McClaskey obtained his education at the
early schools of the neighborhood during the winter months until
he reached his twentieth year when he went to school-teaching,
which he followed for five or six years, educating himself at the
same time. In the fall of 1863 he enlisted in the 120th Ind.
reg., and was elected first lieutenant of Co. B, and shortly
afterward was promoted to the captaincy. He served with the
regiment at Resaca, and in the Atlanta campaign, during a hundred
days the regiment was either engaged or within sound of the
firing; at the battles of Franklin and Nashville, then from
Washington to North Carolina, where they took part in the battle
of Kinston and met Sherman at Rolla. He stayed in North Carolina
until January 1866, when he was discharged. On leaving the army
he returned home and went to farming. On April 30, 1857, he
married Miss Elizabeth COX, daughter of Elijah Cox, on old
settler in Darlington. She died August 24, 1860, leaving one son,
John, who died of typhoid fever in Kansas, where he engaged in
making a farm. In May, 1870, he married Miss Atlanta Harland,
daughter of William G. HARLAND, who located in the present site
of Darlington in 1824; the result of which union is a family of
two sons, William and Joe. Mr. M'Claskey represented the County
in legislature during the session of 1867, and since that time
has served one term as township trustee. He is a leading member
of the I.O.O.F., and in politics is a republican.