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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Hancock County, Ohio
From It's Earliest Settlement to the Present Time.
Together with Reminiscences of Pioneer Life,
Incidents, Statistical Tables, and
Biographical Sketches
By D. B. Beardsley
Findley, O.
Publ. Springfield, O.
Republic Printing Company
1881
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Portage Twp. -
JOSEPH JOHNSTON
was a native of Virginia, where he was born on the 4th day of
April, 1801. His father - Isaac Johnston - moved
from Botetot County, Va., to Ohio, in 1811,and settled at
Portsmouth, in Scioto County. The elder Johnston
was a potter by trade, and followed that business whilst in
Portsmouth.
The subject of this sketch has been a farmer all his
life. In 1827 the family came to this county, and took up
their residence in the village of Findley. Mr. Johnston
was married in 1832 to Susan George, and removed to what
is now Marion township, and in the same year was elected Sheriff
of the county, which office he filled acceptably one term.
He had for neighbors in this township, such men as Asher
Wickham, Charles Thomas E. S. Jones.
In 1853 Mr. Johnston sold his Marion
township farm, and removed to this township, where he still
resides. He had a family of fourteen children, twelve of
whom are living. He is of English descent, had but limited
educational facilities, and was compelled to depend upon his own
resources in that direction. He helped build the first
school house in Marion township, helped to organize, and was a
voter at the first election held in that township. He was
prominently connected with the early history of the county, and
his industry and energy, with his good common sense, gave him
quite an influence with the early settlers.
He has lived long enough to see the vast improvements
made in the county, and to enjoy the fruits of his labor.
His wife died in 1850, and he afterwards married Jane Dudgeon,
who died in 1879. In 1863 he was appointed Post Master at
Portage Center, which office he held about sixteen years.
In 1870 he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is
still a member. His family has become separated,
some reside in Michigan, some in Indiana, and some in this
county. Few men have passed through so checkered a life as
has Mr. Johnston, coming to the county at an age when new
scenes would be most vividly impressed on his mind, and when the
surroundings would be most heartily and most fully appreciated.
He remembers with pleasure those who were his companions in that
half century ago, many of them long since dead. Mr.
Johnston, although in feeble health from old age, and past
hardships, still retains his memory, and loves to talk of those
days and scenes, and people of long ago.
†Source 1: History of
Hancock County, Ohio By D. B. Beardsley, Findley, O. - Publ.
Springfield, O. Republic Printing Company - 1881 Page 260 |
Union Twp. -
CHARLES E. JORDAN
is the third child of Charles Jordan, and is a native of
Richland Township, Belmont County, Ohio, where he was born May
23, 1800. His father was a farmer, and emigrated from
Penn. to Ohio, in 1797. The family left Belmont County in
1828, going to Tuscarawas County.
Mr. Jordan was married in Belmont County Feb.
11, 1826, to Margaret Moore, who lived until May, 1873,
dying at Arcadia, Ohio.
Mr. Jordan by trade is a boot and shoe maker,
but never followed the business but a very few years, since
which time he has been a farmer. He came to this township
Oct. 2, 1833, and settled on the lands immediately adjoining the
town of Arcadia, on which his son John Lately died.
He found this land all in the woods, built his cabin, and went
to work in earnest to make him a home, and his success is
attested by the beautiful farm now occupying the place of the
forest.
Mr. Jordan was the father of nine children, five
of whom are yet living. He had five sons in the Union army
in the rebellion, three of whom are now dead. James
and Charles both died since their return home.
Robert lives in Iowa, and William near Arcadia, Ohio.
Mr. Jordan was amongst the first settlers in
this township, and at once took a prominent place in the affairs
of the township. At the first election he attended in the
township, there were but fourteen votes cast. He has held
several township offices, amongst them that of Justice of the
Peace. He has been a member of the Lutheran Church for
about fifty years, and assisted in the organization of the first
Lutheran Society in the township.
Mr. J. has a fair common English
education, although he never attended school more than two
months in his life. Mr. Jordan moved to Findley in
1874, and still resides there. By his economy and industry
in his younger days he is new enabled to enjoy his old age
without being a burden to any one.
†Source 1: History of
Hancock County, Ohio By D. B. Beardsley, Findley, O. - Publ.
Springfield, O. Republic Printing Company - 1881 Page 465 |
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