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	ISAAC N. ANDERSON.    Isaac N. Anderson, one of Urbana township's best-known farmers, is a native son of Champaign county and has lived here all his life.  He was born on a farm in Mad River township on August 28, 1850, son of Joseph and Louisa (Steinbarger) Anderson, the former of whom was born on that same farm, but whose last days were spent at Tremont, this state.      Joseph Anderson was born in Mad River township, this county, a son of John and Nancy (Lower) Anderson, natives of Virginia, who were married in their native state and then came over into Ohio, about 1816, and settled on a farm in Mad River township, this county, where they lived until their retirement from the farm and removal to Urbana, where their last days were spent.  John Anderson and his wife were the parents of nine children, those besides Joseph having been James, Betsy, William, Albert, Marion, Louise, Susanna and one daughter who died in childhood. Reared on the pioneer home farm in Mad River township, Joseph Anderson established his home on a part of that farm after his marriage and there continued to reside until his removal years later to Tremont. this state, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1909, he then being eighty years of age.  Joseph Anderson was twice married and by his first wife, Louisa Steinbarger, was the father of six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being as follow: Erastus, a resident of Tremont; George, a farmer of Union township, this county; Wiley, of Tremont; Jasper, who is now living in Nebraska, and Elmer, of Mechanicsburg, this county.  The mother of these children died at the age of sixty-one years, and Joseph Anderson later married Mary Overhulser, who survives him and is still making her home at Tremont. To that union were born three children, Anna, Susanna and Charles, the two former of whom are deceased and the latter of whom is now living at Urbana.        Isaac N. Anderson was reared on the home farm in Mad River township and in the neighborhood schools received his schooling.  After his marriage in the spring of 1876 he continued farming in his home township for twenty years or more, or until in 1900, when he bought the Busser farm of fifty acres in Urbana township, where he is now living and where he ever since has made his home.  Since taking possession of that place Mr. Anderson has made many notable improvements on the same and now has a well improved and profitably cultivated farm and one of the best farm plants in that neighborhood.  In addition to his general farming Mr. Anderson gives considerable attention to stock raising and dairying and is doing very well, his farming being carried on in accordance with progressive methods with a view to getting the best possible results from a small farm intensively cultivated.  Mr. Anderson is a Republican and has held some of the township offices from time to time, in that connection giving his earliest attention to the public service.      On Mar. 5, 1876, Isaac N. Anderson was united in marriage to Ella Mitchell, who was born in the neighboring county of Clark, and to this union has been born one child, a son, Harvey Allen Anderson.  Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of the Baptist church at Urbana and take a proper interest in church work, as well as in other neighborhood good works.  Mr. Anderson is a member of the Urbana lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and takes a warm interest in the affairs of that popular fraternal  organization. Source:  History of Champaign County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. 1917 - Page 1025
	JOHN J. ANDERSON.    John J. Anderson, a well-known retired building contractor, of Urbana, former marshal of that city, former president of the city council and an honored veteran of the Civil War, is a native of Virginia, born in Augusta county, that, state, but has been a resident of Urbana since the year 1856.  He was born on Mar. 9, 1835, son of John and Frances (Clark) Anderson.  Both natives of that same county, the former of whom was the son of John Anderson, who was the son of John Anderson, a native of Scotland, who came to this country and settled along the Middle river, near the old stone church, in Augusta county, Virginia, where he established his home and where he spent the remainder of his life.  The subject of this sketch is therefore the fourth John Anderson in direct line.  His grandfather, John Anderson, son of the Scottish immigrant, married Isabel King, of Virginia, and had two children who grew to maturity.  Isabel, who married Thomas Clark and spent her last days near Middletown, and John, third, the father of John J.  The third John Anderson grew up on the old Anderson home place in Augusta county and farmed there all his life, one of the best-known citizens of that community, being known, on account of his connection with this biographical sketch: Francis, who died in infancy; Norvall W., who became connected with his brother, John J., in the building line in Urbana in the latter fifties and who enlisted for service in the Union army during the Civil War, going to the front with Company A, Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Stone's River; Martha E., who died in infancy, and Sarah Margaret, who, in 1864, married George Killian, a farmer of Augusta county, Virginia, now deceased, his widow making her home in Salem, Virginia.  Capt. John Anderson, father of these children, died in 1S56 and his widow, in company with three of her sons, James W., John J. and Norvall W., and her youngest daughter, Sarah Margaret, came over into Ohio and located at Urbana. but in 1860, she returned to her old home in Virginia and there spent her last days, her death occurring in 1885.      John J. Anderson was about twenty-one years of age when he located in Urbana and there he and his brother, Norvall, engaged in carpentering and were thus associated in business together until the breaking out of the Civil War, when both enlisted for service in the Union army, the younger brother later meeting a soldier's fate at the battle of Stone's River.  It was on the President's first call for volunteers that the Anderson brothers enlisted, John J. going to the front as a member of Company K, Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and his ill-fated brother as a member of Company A of that same regiment.  Upon the completion of the three months' service, in July, 1861.   John J. Anderson re-enlisted and was attached to Company G, Third Ohio Cavalry.  His first service under fire was at the battle of Shiloh and he afterward was in many battles and skirmishes, serving in the Army of the Cumberland until the close of the war and was a member of the command which took Jefferson Davis, president of the defeated confederacy, captive.  Not long after entering the service, Mr. Anderson was promoted to the rank of first sergeant, later being raised to the rank of orderly sergeant.  At the battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, he was severely wounded and was for some time compelled to lie in the field hospital, lie received his final discharge at Nashville, Tennessee, in the fall of 1865.      Upon completing his military service John J. Anderson returned to Urbana and resumed his vocation as a building contractor.  He was married in the fall of 1868 and continued working at his trade until his election to the office of city marshal in 1872, serving in that important capacity for twelve years.  In 1872 he stopped contracting and opened a store, handling coal, cement, and building materials.  He conducted this store until he retired from active business in 1907.  For six years he also served as a member of the city council and four years of that time was president of the council.  For two years he was a member of the city board of health and in other ways has contributed of his time and energies to the public service.  Mr. Anderson is a Republican and has ever given his earnest attention to local political affairs, an ardent champion of good government.      It was on Sept. 17, 1868, that John J. Anderson was united in marriage at Urbana to Harriet E. Kimber, who was born in that city, daughter of Amer and Phoebe Kimber, natives of Pennsylvania, whose last days were spent in Urbana. where Amer Kimber for years was engaged as a stone mason.  Mrs. Anderson died on Sept. 23, 1912.  She was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is Mr. Anderson, the latter being a member of the board of trustees of the local congregation of that church.  He is a past commander of Brand Post No. 98, Grand Army of the Republic, and has for years taken an active part in the affairs of that patriotic organization, all the offices in which he has filled at one time and another.  Mr. Anderson is the oldest Odd Fellow in Urbana, is past noble grand of the local lodge of that order and has for many years taken an active part in lodge work. Source:  History of Champaign County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. 1917 - Page 235
	ISAAC I. ARMSTRONG.    The late Isaac I. Arrowsmith, for years one of Champaign county's best-known and most substantial farmers, who was living retired in the city of Urbana at the time of his death on Nov. 13, 1913, was a native son of this county and was an honored veteran of the Civil War.  He was born on a pioneer farm in Mad River township, Feb. 6, 1844, son of Wesley and Susanna Arrowsmith.  Wesley Arrowsmith was a farmer and mill owner, living four miles west of Urbana, and he and his wife were the parents of four children, those besides Isaac, the youngest, being Mary Jane, Elizabeth and Miller, all deceased.      Upon completing the course in the local schools, Isaac I. Arrowsmith took a course in a commercial college.  Through but a boy when the Civil War broke out he enlisted for service in the Union army and served during the hundred-days service as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He later became a farmer on his own account and on Nov. 3, 1868, married Amanda J. Powell, daughter of James D. and Minerva (Hill) Powell, members of pioneer families in Champaign county and further and fitting mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume.  After his marriage Mr. Arrowsmith farmed the old Arrowsmith farm in Mad River township until 1909, when he retired from the active labors of the farm and he and his wife moved to Urbana, where he spent his last days, his death occurring, as noted above, in  1913, and where she is still living.  She is a member of the Presbyterian church and has ever taken an earnest interest in church work.  Mr. Arrowsmith was Republican and ever gave a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, but was not included in the office-seeking class.  He was a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and took a warm interest in the affairs of that organization.  As a member of Brand Post No. 98, Grand Army of the Republic, at Urbana, he took an active interest in the affairs of that patriotic organization and in all ways did his part as a good citizen in the promotion of the best interests of the community in which he spent all his life.      To Isaac I. and Amanda J. (Powell) Arrowsmith two children were born, James I., living on the old home place in Mad River township, who married Bessie Craig and has one child, a son, Marion Powell Arrowsmith, and Minerva A., who married Jesse Lewis, living on the old Powell homestead, and has two children, Emma Jane and Charles Richard Lewis. Source:  History of Champaign County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. 1917 - Page 41
	JAMES I. ARMSTRONG.     James L Arrowsmith, well-known farmer and stockman of Mad River township, this county, living on rural mail route No. 7 out of Urbana, was born on the farm on which he is now living and has lived there all his life.  He was born on Oct.  29, 1881, son of Isaac L and Amanda J. (Powell) Arrowsmith, the former of whom was born on that same farm and the latter on a farm west of Urbana in Urbana township, and the latter of whom is still living, now a resident of Urbana, where she has resided since 1905 and where she is very comfortably situated.      Isaac I. Arrowsmith was born on Feb. 6, 1844, son of Ezekiel Arrowsmith and wife,  substantial pioneer residents of Mad River township, the former of whom died about 1887.  Reared on the farm on which he was born and on which his son is now living, Isaac I. Arrowsmith completed his schooling in a commercial college at Dayton and after his marriage to Amanda J. Powell, who was born in the neighboring township of Urbana on Oct. 16, 1848, established his home on that farm and there continued to make his home until 1905, when he retired from the active labors of the farm and moved to Urbana, buying a residence on Sciota street, where he died Nov. 13, 1913, aged sixty-nine years, and where his widow is still living.  Isaac I. Arrowsmith was a Republican and was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  He and his wife were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Minnie, wife of J. E. Lewis, of Concord township, this county.       Reared on the home farm, where he was born, James I. Arrowsmith received his schooling in the Westville schools and from the days of his boyhood was a valued aid to his father in the labors of improving and developing the home farm. After his marriage in the fall of 1905, his parents retiring from the farm and moving to Urbana in that year, he established his home on the old home place and has since been managing the farm, not only farming the home place of one hundred and four acres, but an "eighty" in Concord township.  In addition to his general farming, Mr. Arrowsmith is giving considerable attention to the raising of live stock, with particular reference to hogs, and is doing very well.      On Oct. 26, 1905, James I. Arrowsmith was united in marriage to Bessie E. Craig, who was born in Salem township, this county, daughter of E. C. Craig and wife, and to this union has been born one child, a son, Marvin P., born on April 24, 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Arrowsmith have a very pleasant home and take an interested part in local social activities.  Mr. Arrowsmith is a member of Magrew Lodge No. 433, Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife are members of the local Grange at Westville, in the affairs of which they take a hearty interest. Source:  History of Champaign County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. 1917 - Page 662

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