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Source:
History of Auglaize County, Ohio
- with the Indian History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement
of the County. -
Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton, Publisher - 1880
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Noble Twp. -
ISRAEL JOHNS was born in Kentucky, in
1803, and came to this county in 1828. His family then
consisted of his wife and three children. They settled in
what is now Noble township, then Wayne township, Mercer County.
He reared a family of ten children, of whom four are still
living. Mr. Johns was one of the exemplary pioneers
of this section. While he was actively engaged in
improving and cultivating his land he yet found time for works
of charity. He became a minister of the gospel, and one
year he filled four appointments, for which his compensation was
three white handkerchiefs. He was a wheelwright by trade,
but could work at any of the mechanical arts. He made
shoes, but wagons, and did smithing for his neighbors. Of
his children, Mrs. A. B. Covert, William Johns, Esq.,
Azariah Johns, and Sarah J. McDonald are still
living.
Source: History of Auglaize
County, Ohio - with the Indian History of Wapakoneta, and the
First Settlement of the County. - Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton,
Publisher - 1880 - Page 196 |
Duchouquet Twp. -
GEO. C. JOHNSTON. In 1829, Geo.
C. Johnston, a resident of Piqua, opened a store or trading
post about where the spoke and wheel establishment of Bitler &
Co. now stands; and the same year Joseph Parks, then the
United States Interpreter, also had a stock of goods; his store
was near the old council house on Auglaize Street. AT that
time the venerable French gentleman, Francis Duchouquet,
former interpreter of hte Shawnees, resided there and on the
ground on which the former residence of Hon. Geo. W. Andrews
stands.
Source: History of Auglaize
County, Ohio - with the Indian History of Wapakoneta, and the
First Settlement of the County. - Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton,
Publisher - 1880 - Page 136 |
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