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Absalom C. Jennings	ABSALOM C. JENNINGS.    The history of a state as well as that of a nation is chiefly the chronicles of the lives and deeds of those who have conferred honor and dignity upon society, whether in the broad sphere of public labors or in the more circumscribed, but not less worthy and valuable realm of individual activity through which the general good is promoted.  The name borne by the subject of this memoir is one which has stood exponent for the most sterling personal characteristics, the deepest appreciation of the rights and privileges of citizenship, and is one which has been identified with the annals of Ohio history from the early pioneer epoch, when this now great and prosperous commonwealth lay on the very frontier of civilization.  Upon the personal career of our subject rests no shadow of wrong.  His life was one of signal activity and usefulness, his efforts being disseminated in various fields of endeavor and his success being the direct sequel of his own discriminating and well directed efforts.  He did much to promote the industrial prestige of champaign county, and here his name is held in lasting honor by all who know him.  As a detailed record of the ancestral history appears in connection with the sketch of Edward Jennings, brother of our subject, on another page of this work, it will not be necessary to recapitulate in this article.      Absalom C. Jennings was a native son of the Buckeye state, having been born on a pioneer farm in Clark county, Ohio, on the 28th of February, 1815, being the second in order of birth of the five children of George and Jane (Chenoweth) Jennings, who emigrated from Virginia to Clark county, Ohio, in the year 1814.  Further details concerning them will be found in the sketch to which reference has already been made.  All of the children are now deceased.  Our subject was reared on the homestead farm and his early educational privileges were such as were afforded in the primitive district schools of the day.  When a young man he came to Urbana, Champaign county, and here entered the employ of E. B. Cavalier, who was engaged in the general merchandise business.  Here also he learned the saddlery and harness trade, and eventually he engaged in business in this line, at Marysville, Union county, Ohio, where he conducted a successful enterprise for a period of four years, being a natural salesman and a progressive and able business man, as was manifest in every portion of his long and honorable business career.  In 1844 Mr. Jennings removed to New York city, where he was for two years in the employ of a leading merchant, J. L. Cochran.  At the expiration of this period he associated himself with T. B. Read, under the firm name of Jennings, Read & Company, and engaged in the wholesale hat, cap, straw goods and fancy millinery business, the enterprise being conduced with consummate skill and discretion and proving successful.  In 1859 Mr. Jennings disposed of his interests in this concern and returned from the national metropolis to Champaign county, Ohio, locating in Urbana.  He had purchased a tract of land in this county, and after residing in Urbana for a time he removed to his farm, in Salem township, in order the better to supervise his interests there.  He erected the “round barn” on the place, and the same remains as one of the landmarks of this section of the state.  Here he became one of the pioneers in the introduction of the important enterprise of breeding fine horses and Jersey cattle in the county, and through his vigorous and timely efforts there was given an impetus to these lines of industry that has continued to be felt to the present, the value of his initiative efforts being inestimable.  His place was known as the Nutwood Farm, and under his supervision became one of the noted stock farms of this section of the Union.  He gave special attention to the raising and training of standard and thoroughbred horses and the breeding of the highest type of Jersey cattle, being exceptionally successful and acquiring an extensive and valuable landed estate in the county.  From 1874 to 1877, inclusive.  Mr. Jennings was engaged in the dry goods business in Springfield, this state, but after disposing of this business he continued to devote his entire attention to his farming and stock interests in Champaign county until his death, maintaining his residence in the city of Urbana, where his death occurred on the 1oth of March, 1895, and where his widow still maintains her home, the beautiful residence being hallowed by the memories and associations of the past.      In his political adherency, Mr. Jennings was originally an old-line Whig, but upon the organization of the Republican party he transferred his allegiance to the same and thereafter continued to support its principles and policies.  While he was public-spirited and every ready to co-operate in any enterprise for the promotion of the general good, he never aspired to the honors of public office, holding his business interests as worthy of his undivided attention.  He was beyond the age limit of military service at the outbreak of the Rebellion, but manifested his loyalty and deep patriotism by sending two men into the service at his personal expense.  He was broad and tolerant in his views, having a high regard for basic religious principles, though he never became a member of any church.  He was however, a liberal contributor to the support of the Presbyterian church, of which Mrs. Jennings has long been a devoted adherent.  Fraternally he was identified with the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  His integrity of purpose was beyond cavil, in person he was genial and courteous, winning warm and enduring friendships, and in all the relations of life he stood as an upright, high-principled gentleman, commanding the respect and esteem of all with whom he came in contact.      On the 26th of November, 1839, Mr. Jennings was united in marriage to Miss Julia A. McNay, who was born in Logan county, Ohio, the daughter of David and Rhoda (Wilcox) McNay, natives respectively of Kentucky and New York, from the former of which states they came to Ohio in the pioneer days, settling in Logan county.  Mr. and Mrs. Jennings had no children. Source:  A Centennial Biographical History of Champaign Co., Ohio - Illustrated - New York and Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 46
	EDWARD JENNINGS.    To have attained to the extreme fulness of years and to have had one's ken broadened to a comprehension of all that has been accomplished within the flight of many days, is of itself sufficient to render consonant the consideration of such a life in a work, of this nature, but in the case at hand there are more pertinent, more distinguishing elements - those of usefulness, of high honor, of marked intellectuality, of broad humanitarian spirit and of well earned success, - which lift in high regard the subjective personality of one who has ever stood four square to every wind that blows.  No shadows darken any period of the long and honorable life of the venerable subject of this review, who has now passed the age of four score years and ten, and his has been the advantage of an ancestry typical of all that makes for integrity and true worth.      A resident of the city of Urbana, where many years of his life have been passed, though his efforts have been desseminated over a wide field of business enterprises in various sections of the Union, this patriarchal citizen is known to practically every member of the community and to him is granted that reverence due to so advanced age and to one whose life has been of signal integrity and honor.  No record touching the life histories of the representative men of Champaign county would be consistent with itself were there failure to revert to the career of Edward Jennings.  Back to that cradle of' much of our national history, the Old Dominion state, must we turn in tracing the genealogy of our subject, and it is found that he was born in Berkeley county, Virginia (now West Virginia), on the 1st of April, 1811, being the eldest of the five children of George and Jane (Chenoweth) Jennings and the only one living at the present time, the other children having been Absalom C. (elsewhere mentioned in this work), Amy Jane, Sarah C. and Nancy C.      The parents of our subject were both born in Berkeley county, Virginia, whence they came to Ohio in the year 1814, locating on a tract of land in Clark county, where the father reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds.  In later years he became interested in farming, and while on a business trip in connection therewith met an accidental death, being drowned in the Ohio river, about the year 1825.  About nine years later his widow moved to Urbana, where she passed the residue of her life, being summoned into eternal rest in 1876.  She was a woman of gentle and noble character, a zealous worker in the Baptist church, exemplifying her Christian faith in the daily walk of life, and winning the love of a large circle of devoted friends.      Edward Jennings was about four years of age at the time of his removal to Ohio, and was reared on the old homestead farm in Clark early beginning to contribute to the work of the same and having such educational advantages as were offered in the primitive log school-house of the period.  Upon attaining the age of seventeen years he left the home farm and came to Urbana, where he found employment in the general merchandise store of E. B. Cavalier, one of the pioneer business men of the town.  He was thus engaged for a period of five years, at the expiration of which he removed to Circleville, Pickaway county, where he held a clerkship about one and one-half years, proceeding thence to Chillicothe, where he secured an interest in a general store and also engaged in the grain business, disposing of his interests four years later, in 1837, and being for the next year at leisure, passing the greater portion of this interval in New York city.  In the meanwhile he entered into partnership with other citizens of Chillicothe, under the firm name of Wilcox, Barber & Jennings, and established the first wholesale dry-goods enterprise in  that place, the firm becoming Wilcox & Jennings one year after the opening of the business.  This enterprise was thus continued for six years, at the expiration of which Mr. Jennings disposed of his interests and went to New York city, where he engaged in the same line of enterprise, under the firm name of Mozier, Jennings & Company, Mr. Mozier withdrawing at the end of two years, whereupon the firm became Tweedy, Jennings & Company.  Two years later our subject sold out his interests, having in the meanwhile associated himself with his brother, Absalom C., and with T. B, Read, both of Urbana, in the manufacturing of straw hats and in the wholesaling of the products, together with hats, caps and fancy millinery, under the firm name of Jennings, Read & Company.  Mr. Jennings gave no personal attention to this enterprise and finally withdrew from the firm, as did also his brother.  He had acquired considerable real estate in Highland and Clinton counties, Ohio, and there he passed some time in the supervision of his interests.  Finally, owing to the impaired health of his wife, he took her to Cincinnati for treatment and this led to his forming acquaintances in that city, where he finally secured an interest in a wholesale grocery business, which was conducted under the firm title of Jennings & Butterfield and later that of Jennings, Butterfield & Clark.  For nearly twenty years our subject continued to retain an interest in this business, which became one of importance.  He continued his residence in Cincinnati about five years and then came to Urbana, in 1859, where he has ever since maintained his home, - a term of more than forty years, within which he has been known as a public spirited citizen, lending aid and influence in support of measures for the public good and contributing to the progress and material prosperity of the city, whose growth from the position of a primitive country town he has witnessed.  Mr. Jennings has extensive landed interests in Champaign county, and when he came here in 1859 interested himself in the raising of high-grade stock upon a large scale, doing much to promote this line of industry in this section of the state.  He owns what is known as the Governor Vance farm, one of the finest properties in the county, and also other valuable lands.  While he has been a stanch adherent of the Republican party from the time of its organization, Mr. Jennings has never sought political preferment and has invariably refused to permit his name to be considered in connection with candidacy for office.  His life has been a successful one from every viewpoint, and his prosperity has been achieved by worthy means, thus retaining to him uniform confidence and esteem.  He lives in a modest farm home, the same, however being within the city limits of Urbana.      On the 4th of June, 1839, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jennings to Miss Anna M. Bentley, who was born in Highland county, Ohio, the daughter of Colonel Eli P. Bentley, one of the pioneers of Highland county, but was living at Chillicothe at the time of her marriage.  She proved a devoted companion and helpmeet to her husband, being a woman of sterling character and gentle refinement and holding the deep affection of those who came within the immediate sphere of her gracious and kindly influence.  She passed away in April, 1890, at the age of sixty-seven years, having been a communicant of and zealous worker in the Protestant Episcopal church.  Mr. and Mrs. Jennings became the parents of three sons and three daughters, of whom there are now living only the two sons, - Edward P. and George B. both of whom are residents of Urbana. Source:  A Centennial Biographical History of Champaign Co., Ohio - Illustrated - New York and Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 59
D. J. Johnson Mrs. D. J. Johnson	DAVID J. JOHNSON, a representative of a prominent old Virginia family and a leading agriculturist of Champaign county, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, May 11, 1820.  In the Old Dominion his paternal grandfather was also born, and he was of Dutch descent.  Amos Johnson, the father of our subject, claimed Frederick county as the place of his nativity, his birth there occurring on Oct. 30, 1775, and he was there reared and married.  The year 1833 witnessed his arrival in the Buckeye state, his first location being in Licking county, but in the following year he came to Champaign county, purchasing a farm near Kings Creek, Salem township.  His death occurred in Wayne township, this county, when he had reached the eighty-fifth milestone on the journey of life.  He was a life-long farmer, a member of the Christian church, and a supporter of the Democracy. He was ever a loyal and progressive citizen, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Groceman, was also a native of the Old Dominion, born in 1782, and she, too, was a member of a prominent old family of that commonwealth and of Dutch descent.  Mr. and Mrs. Johnson became the parents of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, all of whom grew to years of maturity and with one exception all were married.      David J. Johnson, whose name introduces this review, is the eleventh in order of birth in the above family and the only one now living.  When twelve years of age he left the county of his nativity, and in the following year came to Champaign county, where he received his education in the old time log school house.  After his marriage he made his home in Salem for a time, but in 1848 located on the farm on which he still resides.  He here owns seventy acres of rich and fertile land, all of which is under an excellent state of cultivation, and his fields annually return to their owner abundant harvests.      In Salem township, Champaign county, on the 26th of February, 1845, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Gutridge, who was born in that locality on the 3d of August, 1822, a daughter of Richard and Lucretia (Manus) Gutridge, prominent early settlers of this county.  Four children have blessed the union of our subject and wife, namely: Eliza Jane, the wife of Charles W. Hollingsworth, of Urbana; James I., who married Mary Norman and resides on the old homestead; Ella, the wife of L. R. Marshall, of Mingo, Wayne township; and S. Elizabeth, the deceased wife of John Nincehelser.  Mr. Johnson has been a life-long member of the Democratic party, and for over fifty years has been a member of the Baptist church, in which he has long been an office holder.  He has made good use of his opportunities through life, was prospered from year to year and all who know him have the highest admiration for his good qualities of heart and mind. Source:  A Centennial Biographical History of Champaign Co., Ohio - Illustrated - New York and Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 62
	JAMES B. JOHNSON.    Labor, honorable and well directed, has long since been granted its proper place in the plans of the world, and it is the busy man who assumes leadership in all affairs.  His fidelity to the duties by which his business is carried on is that by which he is judged by his fellow' men. and the verdict is rendered in accordance with his accomplished purposes.  In this sense Mr. Johnson has won the commendation and respect of all with whom he has come in contact.  Dependent upon his own resources from an early age, he has led a busy and useful life and by his own efforts has worked his way steadily upward, achieving a position of prominence and independence ere he had attained the prime of life.  He has ever had the highest respect for the dignity of honest toil and endeavor, being mindful of the steps by which he has personally risen, and his executive ability has been quickened by his varied experiences. through which there has been no vacillation of purpose and through which he has shown that elemental strength and self-reliance which have made for worthy success and gained to him unqualified confidence and regard.  He is now numbered among the representative citizens and business men of Urbana, whose people have manifested their appreciation of his eligibility by twice electing him to the chief executive office of the municipal govermnent, in which he is now serving his second term, having made a record as one of the most able and popular mayors the city has ever had and giving an economical and thoroughly business-like administration.      James B. Johnson was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on the 9th of April, 1860, being the son of Alfred and Anna M. (Thorn) Johnson, the former of whom was born in Warren county, Ohio, and the latter in Dutchess county, New York, of English lineage.  They now maintain their home in the city of Richmond, Indiana, the father being a beloved and devoted minister of the Society of Friends, of which he is a birthright member.  Of his eight children three are deceased.  The parents of our subject removed from Kansas City to Wilmington, Clinton county, Ohio, when he was an infant, and there he was reared to the age of sixteen years, having received such educational advantages as were afforded by the public schools.  At the age noted Mr. Johnson gave inception to his independent career, securing a position as newsboy for the Union News Company and running on trains out of the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.  Later he was employed in a dairy at Friendswood, sixteen miles distant from that city, in Hendricks county, and his next occupation was as a conductor on the Indianapolis street car lines owned by Hon. Thomas Johnson, of Cleveland.  From Indianapolis he made his way to St. Louis, where he was employed for a time as driver on street cars and later operated the passenger elevator in the Planters Hotel, in the meanwhile putting his leisure hours to good use by attending night school.  Ever alert to improve his position, we next find the young man installed in charge of the livery and carriage agency in the Southern Hotel, the other leading caravansary of the Missouri metropolis.  Finally, in 1880, when twenty years of age, Mr. Johnson secured the position as messenger in that well known financial institution, the Chase National Bank, of New York City, where he remained four years, being advanced to the position of clearing house clerk of the bank.  He left this position to accept that of secretary to the treasurer of the Erie railroad and in 1886 went to western Kansas, where for two years he was identified with the real-estate and banking business, while in 1887 he was incumbent of the office of mayor of Scott City, that state.  In 1888 he returned to New York City, where he remained two years in the employ of W. H. Fletcher & Company, importers and manufacturers of lace curtains.  Thereafter he passed two years in the city of Philadelphia and in 1890 came to Urbana, where he accepted a position as traveling salesman for the wholesale grocery house of the W. H. Marvin Company.  He continued to represent this house through its trade territory until 1897, when he was elected mayor of Urbana and in addition to assuming his official duties also engaged in the retail furniture and house-furnishing business, utilizing the old Marvin headquarters, where he continued operations until October, 1901, when he removed to his present finely equipped and eligibly located quarters, at 119 North Main street, where he has built up a large and flourishing business, receiving a representative patronage and commanding the confidence of the local public by his careful and honorable methods and unvarying courtesy.  His administration of municipal affairs was such as to gain for him marked popular endorsement, leading to his re-election in 1900, and he is still incumbent of. this office.  Fraternally Mr. Johnson is prominently identified with the Masonic order, in which he has completed the round of the York Rite, being a member of Raper Conunandery, Knights Templar, and also holding prestige as a noble of Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine, at Dayton, while he is also identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias. the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the United Commercial Travelers.  In his political proclivities Mr. Johnson is an ardent advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and his religious faith is that of the Protestant Episcopal church, he and his wife being communicants of the Church of the Epiphany, while both take an active interest in the general and parochial work of the church.      On the 3rd of September. 1890, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Anna W. Marvin, daughter of William H. Marvin, president of the wholesale grocery company which bears his name and known as one of the representative citizens of Urbana and the state.  Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have three children, - Loretta, Marvin and Elizabeth. Source:  A Centennial Biographical History of Champaign Co., Ohio - Illustrated - New York and Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 317
	NELSON B. JOHNSON.    Throughout his entire life Nelson Boggs Johnson was numbered among the citizens of Wayne township, Champaign county.  His birth here occurred in the parental home on the 1st of July, 1810.  His father, Jacob Johnson. was born in Maryland, July 27, 1766, while his mother was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 20, 1774.  In 1804 the father came to Champaign county, locating on the east fork of Kings creek, and in the following year he took up his abode in Wayne township, they being the first white family to locate in the Mingo valley.  There the father's life’s labors were ended in death in 1845. His wife, nee Martha Boggs, died on the same farm in 1854, at the age of eighty-two years.  Of their nine children Alford is the only one now living. and he resides in Mingo, Champaign county.      Nelson B. Johnson, the eighth child in order of birth, with his two brothers remained on the old home farm until he was fifty-eight years of age, engaged in farming and stock-raising. and at that time the place was divided, it then consisting of nineteen hundred acres.  After his marriage our subject located on the farm on which his widow new resides, where he continued his farming and stock-raising interests.   As the years passed by success abundantly rewarded his well directed efforts, and at his death he was the owner of twelve hundred and twenty seven acres, a princely domain.  He carried forward to successful completion whatever he undertook, and his business methods were ever in strict conformity with the ethics of commercial life.  He was also a strong temperance man, and throughout his entire life he never used tobacco in any form or never uttered a profane word.  He passed away on the 11th of August, 1895, at the age of eighty-five years, but in the hearts of his friends are enshrined many pleasant memories of him, and his influence for good remains with those who knew him.  In early life he gave his political support to the Republican party, and afterward became a supporter of Greeley.      On the 12th of May, 1868, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Anna Eliza Gilbert, who was born in Harrison county, Virginia, Feb. 16, 1839.  Her father, Amos Gilbert, was a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, but when a young man he removed to Harrison county, West Virginia, and throughout his business career he was engaged both in farming and merchandising.  His father, Amos Gilbert, Sr., was a native of England, but in early life he came to this country, and was here married to Latitia Canby.  After a happy married life of only one year he was called to his final rest.  Amos Gilbert, the father of Mrs. Johnson, was married in Harrison county, West Virginia, to Phoebe D. Wilson, who was there born, reared and educated, and they became the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters, and four sons order of birth, was eight years of age when she came with her parents and two daughters are yet living.  One daughter died at the age of thirteen years.  Mrs. Johnson, the fourth child and third daughter in to Clinton county, Ohio, and in 1849 she accompanied the family on their removal to Champaign county.  She received her education in the district schools and in the Urbana high school, and for twelve years there after she was one of the county's successful and prominent teachers.  It was her intention in early life to become a physician, and as a means to that end she began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Butcher, after which she attended four courses of lectures at the Philadelphia Woman's Medical College.  By her marriage to Mr. Johnson she became the mother of three children, namely: Mary D., born Sept. 2, 1869; Rodney P., who died on the 22d of October, 1876; and Amos N., who was born Apr. 9, 1877. With her daughter, Mary D., Mrs. Johnson now resides on a valuable farm in Wayne township, but it is her intention to remove to North Lewisburg, where she also owns property.  The family occupy a very prominent position in social circles, and their home is justly celebrated for its charming hospitality. Source:  A Centennial Biographical History of Champaign Co., Ohio - Illustrated - New York and Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 124
	SILAS JOHNSON.    Success has been worthily attained by Silas Johnson, who is to-day accounted one of the prosperous farmers of Champaign county.  To his energy, enterprise, careful management and keen discrimination this is attributable.  He was born in Goshen township, this county, on the 17th of April, 1846.  His father, John Johnson, settled in Champaign county when a young man, but subsequently removed to Madison county, Ohio. where he was married to Martha Rafferty, a native of Kentucky, and she was there reared and educated, coming to this county in middle life.  Her parents were also natives of that commonwealth, and her grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812.  Unto Mr. and .\'Irs. Johnson were born five children. - Silas, Molly, Virginia, Clinton and John, all of whom were born in Champaign county, but all but the two eldest are now deceased.  The father gave his political support to the Whig party, and his death occurred in 1855.      Silas Johnson, of this review, removed to Madison county, Ohio, when about five years of age, and there attended school for one term, returning thence with his father to Champaign county.  He completed  his education in the schools of Northville, putting aside his text-books at the age of fifteen years, and enlisted in Company B, One Hundredand Thirty-fourth Regiment, National Guards, on the 18th day of January, 1863, being discharged Apr. 29, 1864.  Returning to the old home farm, he was there engaged in agricultural pursuits until the spring of 1873, when he removed to the farm on which he now resides, the place then consisting of one hundred and seventy-two acres of timber land.  He immediately began the arduous task of clearing and improving his farm, and as time passed not only improved the place but has added to its boundaries until he is now the owner of a valuable homestead of two hundred and eighty-five acres, all of which is under cultivation.  He has given special attention to the raising of cattle, horses and hogs, and in former years was also engaged in the raising of sheep.  Energy is one of his most marked characteristics, and he prosecutes his labors with a zeal that has brought him rich returns.  Substantial buildings, the latest improved machinery, well kept fences and good grades of stock, - these are among the accessories of the Johnson farm.      On the 11th of June, 1867, in Champaign county, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Johnson and Miss Sarah Weidman, who was born in this county and has here spent her entire life with the exception of a short period when she was a resident of Marshall county, Illinois.  Her father, Abram Weidman. was a native of Virginia, but when about twenty years of age came to Champaign county, where he was numbered among the early pioneers.  His wife, who bore the maiden name of Emily Dewey, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was there reared and educated.  The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Weidman was celebrated in Champaign county, and they became the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters: James, William, Mary, Sarah, Martha, Samuel, Fannie and Frank, all born in this county.  Mr. Weidman gave his political support to the Democracy, and was an active worker for his party.  Unto the union of our subject and wife have been born seven children, namely: Anna, who became the wife of Joseph Hewlings, and both are now deceased; Frank, also deceased; Frederick, a farmer of Harrison township, Champaign county; and Lella, Charles, Emma and Ralph, at home.  In his political views Mr. Johnson is an independent Democrat, and on that ticket has been elected to many public positions, for several years holding the office of township trustee, and is now occupying the position of ditch superintendent.  He is a member of the Wesley Chapel Methodist church, of which he has served as a deacon for some time.  Almost his entire life has been passed in Champaign county, and he has a wide acquaintance among her best citizens, many of whom are included within the circle of his friends. Source:  A Centennial Biographical History of Champaign Co., Ohio - Illustrated - New York and Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 495