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- from biography posted on findagrave.com
CYRUS, son of ISAAC and NANCY (WILKINS) FALCONER, married MARY WOODS, who died 1870. He took a 2nd wife, MARGARET McKEE, 1 Feb 1872, who died 1878. No issue.
He married 3rd, ELINOR (ELLA) ELIZABETH CRAWFORD, on 20 May 1880 in Butler County, OH. CYRUS was a leading member of the First Presbyterian Church of Hamilton. He was opposed to slavery after seeing it on a trip to New Orleans. He studied in Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati receiving a medical degree in 1839. Prominent in professional and civic affairs; published in medical journals; helped found the Butler Co Medical Society; was vice-president of the Ohio State Medical Association. He was on the board of directors of the Hamilton and Rossville Hydraulic Company in 1859; one of the organizers in 1851 of the Hamilton union school system and was on the board of school examiners for nine years; a trustee of Ohio State Agricultural College (now Ohio State University) during the gubernatorial terms of R.B.HAYES and NOYES. He was a delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1839.
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