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John Innskeep Van Meter John
I. Van Meter, youngest son of
Isaac Van Meter, Est., who married ( Pollv Harness, represented
his native county of Hardy in
the Virginia General Assembly while yet so young as to
be barely eligible to the
office according to the laws
of Virginia and then removed to
a fine farm on the Scioto
River in Ohio, where he lived until quite in old man and then removed to
Chillicothe, Ohio, where he spent the remainder of his life. He reared a family
of children, only two of whom are now living, viz., Judge John Marshall Van who
is a very prominent lawyer
as well as a large and successful farmer, and has served
a term as Circuit Judge
in the Chillicothe Judicial District, and resides in that city, although
he still retains his large and excellent farm on the Scioto River. His sister
Mary, who has never married, resides in the excellent homestead of
her parents and immediately
adjoining the residence of her brother. Judge John
M. Van Meter married , first, Miss
Sesson of
Ohio, by which marriage he has
two children now living, viz. . John
I. and Eliza. After the death of
his first wife he married Miss Susan Cunningham, oldest daughter of William
Streit Cunningham, of Moorefield, West Virginia. From this marriage they have
raised two daughters, who are now living,
viz., Mary and Sallie. The Honorable John I. Van Meter represented his district
in the United States Congress from Ohio
for two or more terms. He lived to be more than seventy years of age, and
was a very influential and prominent man. His wife
died many years before he
did.
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