From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 678-679.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


LEVI G. BROCK

Levi G. Brock, assistant cashier of the Marshall County bank, of 
Moundsvile, was born in Monroe county, Ohio, March 10, 1845.  He is 
the only son of John Brock, a native of Virginia, who was taken to 
Ohio by his parents when six years old, in 1812.  He was a farmer by 
occupation, and he and his wife, whose maiden name was Rebecca 
Stucky, were members of the Disciples church.  She died in 1852, aged 
forty-four years, and in 1869 he moved to Brown county, Ind., where 
he died in 1889.  To the marriage above mentioned were born seven 
children, one of whom is the subject of this mention. The father 
contracted a second union, with Rachel McFadden, by whom he had five 
children.  When Levi G., was sixteen years old, he enlisted September 
6, 1861, in Company F, Fifteenth Ohio, and was first engaged in 
battle at Pittsburgh Landing, where he was wounded by a minnie ball, 
in the left hip, an injury by which he is still afflictd.  After 
recovering sufficiently he engaged in teaching, and taught from 1863 
to 1884, also completing in the vacation of 1865, a course in Duff's 
commercial college at Pittsburgh.  Since 1884 he has held his present 
position in the Marshall county bank. He is now serving as clerk of 
the city, as which he was elected in 1888, and he has served three 
terms as a member of the board of school examiners.  He is prominent 
in fraternal circles, is a senior warden of the Masonic lodge, vice 
grand of the I.O.O.F., financial secretary of the National Union, was 
commander for several years in the G.A.R., and has been a member of 
the council of administration of the department of the state.  In 
politics he is a republican, and he and his wife are members of the 
Disciples church.  He was married January 1, 1872, to Ella B., 
daughter of David Gates, of Moundsville, which wife died October 22, 
1883, leaving two children:  Maud and Lisle G.  On September 12, 
1889, he was married to Selina H., daughter of T. H. Bakewell, of 
Moundsville. 


(Linda Fluharty)