SAMUEL McCURDY is a prosperous farmer and well known resident of Concord Township, Miami County, Ohio, where he is the owner of two farms, consisting of 272 acres in all. He was born in Ireland in 1849 and is a son of Samuel and Eliza (Barr) McCurdy.

Samuel McCurdy, Sr., was born in Ireland and there engaged in agricultural pursuits until about the year 1850, when he moved with his wife and children to the United States. They crossed the water in a sailing vessel, the voyage consuming five or six weeks, and locating at Allentown, Pennsylvania, where Mr. McCurdy was employed in the iron works for some three years. He then moved west to Troy, Ohio, before the days of railroads, making the trip down the Ohio River to Cincinnati, thence north by the canal to Troy. He there engaged in pumping water for the railroad, which had just been completed through Troy, and during the three years he was thus employed he missed but a day and a half. He bought a farm of eighty acres in Concord Township, on which his daughter, Nancy, now lives, and with the help of his sons cleared the place. He farmed there until his death in 1894, at the age of eighty-eight years. His wife preceded him to the grave, dying at the age of eighty years. They were parents of t he following children, all of whom were born in Ireland: Robert; Isabella, wife of John Sype, both deceased; Eliza, who was the wife of William Fleming, both now deceased; Jane, widow of Robert Pearson; Margaret, widow of John Minton; Nancy; Samuel, whose name heads this record; and two who died in infancy.

Samuel McCurdy, Jr., was about one year old when his parents came to this country from Ireland, and was quite young when they located on the farm in Concord Township. He has ever since lived within site of the old home, which place he helped to clear. He attended the public schools when not at hard work on the farm, and lived with his father until his marriage in 1871, then for a few years rented and farmed. He later bought a tract of forty acres, to which he added in time, but in 1890 he sold out and purchased his present home farm on the Troy and Covington Pike from the Correy heirs. He has made extensive improvements on the place and followed general farming with a high degree of success.

December 28, 1871, Mr. McCurdy was united in marriage with Susan Correy, who was born and reared on the farm on which she now lives and is a daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Eaton) Correy, of Concord Township. They became parents of the following children: Charles, who died at the age of twenty-two years; Samuel H. of Troy, who married Sarah Stewart and has three children: Ralph, Myrtle, and Fred; John, of Concord Township, who married Ella Longendelpher, and has a daughter, Helen; Joseph; Mary; Jennie; Rosa; Bessie; William, and Walter. Politically Mr. McCurdy is a Democrat.