Perry Van Ewing

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• Name: Van Ewing
• Census: 1900, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; as P. Van Ewing, son, in the household of Robert Ewing

Notes:

Perry Van Ewing, son of Robert Brown and Mary Laura Ewing, was born Aug., 25, 1889, in Texas, and died Jan. 24, 1963. He attended Ohio State University, Columbus, graduating in agriculture, with honors, including Phi Beta Kappa. In 1913 he earned his Master's degree at Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas.

On Aug. 27, 1913, he was married to Louise Robison Mitchell, born Nov. 3, 1892, daughter of Robert Clinton and Sarah Rebecca Mitchell of Carlisle, Ohio. For a time Van, as Perry Van was generally known, taught agriculture at College Station, Griffin, Georgia. Later he taught at College Station, Texas. In 1919 he moved with his family to Chicago -- where has was engaged for about eight years in businesses related to agriculture and stock raising. In May of 1928 he bought a third interest in the American sheep Breeder Magazine. In February 1930 he bought out the other two partners, and in the early thirties, in the depths of the depression, assumed a heavy debt to pay for the magazine, and set about sending his two children through college.

In 1938, after his children were through college, he moved his publishing business to Columbia, Mo., and his son, Perry Van, Jr. began to assume responsibility for publishing the magazine. Perry Van, Sr., always looking for greener pastures went into real estate development, literally turning some green pastures and some wood lots into residential communities on the outskirts of Columbia.

There were two children by this marriage. [Source: Donald Brown Ewing, "Our Ewings in America 1740-1966", Santa Monica, California: The Acme Press, 1966]

Birth:
twin of Amos

Perry married Louise Robison Mitchell on 27 Aug 1913 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Louise was born on 3 Nov 1892 in Franklin, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 10 Jun 1983 in Illinois, United States; was buried in Jun 1983 in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]