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CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES, OHIO
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1913
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PERCY
FRENCH JAMIESON, president of the First National
Bank of Batavia, Ohio, and one of the progressive and
successful business men of Clermont county, was born at
Batavia, Ohio, July 24, 1868, son of Milton
Jamieson, extended mention of whom appears on other
pages of these volumes.
Mr. Jamieson, of this review, graduated from the
Batavia public schools in 1887, then attended the
University at Wooster, Ohio, joining the "Phi Gamma Delta"
college fraternity, of which he is still a member. Soon
after leaving college Mr. Jamieson accepted
the position of secretary of Jones Brothers'
Electric Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, resigning within a
year to become assistant cashier of the First National
Bank of Batavia. He served the bank in this capacity until
1907, when he was elected cashier, and since January,
1912, has been the institution's efficient president. He
assisted in the organization of the Batavia Improvement
Company, and has served as its president to the present
time. In 1933 he formed a partnership with A. V.
Carroll, of Williamsburg, Ohio, for the manufacture of
machine tools, and one year later organized the business
into a stock company under the corporate name of the
Carroll-Jamieson Machine Tool Company, serving
since then as secretary and treasurer. The business has
been very successful, the company owns its plant and ships
machinery to all parts of the United States and is
building up a foreign trade. In 1906, Mr.
Jamieson started what is known as the Batavia Foundry
Company as a partnership with James A. Norman,
whose interest he purchased the same year; the plant was
completely destroyed by fire, in February, 1912, but he
rebuilt at once a much better building and the foundry is
now doing a good business. He is a director and a
vice-president of "American Liability Insurance Company,"
of Cincinnati, Ohio, besides other business interests.
While never in any sense a politician, Mr. Jamieson
has served on the Batavia council, was president of the
board of public affairs for six years and is at present a
member of the school board. He has ever taken an active
interest and part in enterprises for the upbuilding of his
home town. He was the organizer, in 1892, of the Batavia
orchestra and is still leader. September 26, 1894, was
solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jamieson and Miss
Elizabeth Griffith, daughter of Thomas A.
and Anna M. Griffith, of Batavia, Ohio. To this union
have been born the following children: Donald G.,
born November 6, 1895; Katherine, born February 12,
1897; Robert B., born May 4, 1900; Elizabeth,
born May 26, 1903; Mary Virginia, born September
19, 1905; and John G., born June 3, 1911.
Mr. Jamieson is a member
of the time-honored Masonic fraternity, including the Blue
Lodge, Chapter and Council. Both he and Mrs.
Jamieson are members of the First Presbyterian Church
of Batavia, in which he is an acting elder, being also
superintendent of the Sunday school.
Source: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio
- Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 47 |
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JOHN JARMAN
is one of the most extensive farmers of Washington
township, Clermont county, and belongs to the class of
self-made en who have done so much for the progress and
welfare of the county. He is held in respect by
his neighbors and enjoys the good will of all who know
him. He was born near Neville, Clermont county, in
1875, son of George and Alice Jarman, a sketch of
whom also appears in this work. The father was a
prominent citizen of the county, industrious and
thrifty, and is well remembered by many, as he was much
interested in local affairs and was kindly disposed
toward all. He and his wife had four children,
mentioned in connection with the sketch of the parents.
Mr. Jarman attended
school at Beech Grove, and after leaving school remained
on the home farm with his mother until he attained his
majority. Sept. 16, 1902, he married
Miss Hattie Essex, who was born at Rural, Clermont
county, Mar. 9, 1879, daughter of A. L. and Rachael
Belle (Reed) Essex, of Rural. Her father,
Albert L. Essex, is a retired tobacco buyer and in
early years was a teacher and farmer. He is a son
of Albert and Joanna (Broadwell) Essex, born at
Rural, in 1854, and resides in Washington township.
His father was born in New York, in 1818, and died in
1853, not long before the birth of his son. His
mother was born at Milford, Ohio, in 1823, and died in
1892,and both were buried in Rural cemetery.
Albert and Joanna Essex had four children, two of
whom reached maturity: Frances, wife of
William A. Jones, of Walnut Hills, and Albert L.
Albert L. Essex attended National Normal
University, at Lebanon, Ohio, and for a short time
studied at Augusta, Ky. He taught some fifteen
years in Franklin township, buying tobacco during the
summer months. He became foreman for H. P.
Williams, an extensive tobacco buyer, and had a
factory for several years. In 1892 he built a
warehouse, but since 1896 he has practically retired and
his son carried on the business for some years, but is
now connected with the American Tobacco Company.
He spent the greater part of his life in Franklin
township, now the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Jarman.
He was elected by the Republicans to the office of
justice of the peace, serving nine years in Franklin
township and three yeas in Washington township, and
served some time as trustee in the latter. In 1878
he married Miss Belle Reed, born near Rural in
1856, daughter of Joseph and Rachael (Morgan) Reed.
Mr. Reed was born in Felicity in 1828 and died in
1904, and the mother was born near Rural in 1830, and
died in 1885, both being buried at Mount Pleasant.
There were eleven children in their family, eight of
whom reached maturity: Elizabeth, wife of
Baker Flaugher, of Higginsport; Edward was
killed in childhood; Belle, Mrs. Essex; Alphonso,
who was accidentally killed; William of
Cincinnati; Alvina, Mrs. Mahllon Vermillion,
deceased; Laura, Mrs. Harvey Fry; Grant, died
February, 1913, at Cincinnati; Edmond, of
Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Essex had five
children born near Rural: Hattie, wife of
John Jarman; Paul, of Ripley, Ohio,
married Mary Glazer, of Neville; Edith,
wife of Alfred M. Demaris, living on a farm near
Rural, has one child; the other two children, Eva
and Wylie, died in infancy. Mr. Essex
had an uncle, Ferdinand Broadwell, who served in
the Civil war, in the Twenty-second Ohio, and Mrs.
Essex had two uncles, Frank and Charles
Reed, who served in the war, the former of whom was
wounded at Kenesaw Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Essex
have worked hard and now enjoy their comfortable
circumstances. Mrs. Essex belongs to the
Christian church at rural.
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Jarman located near
Neville, where he has some three hundred acres of land
under his control, part of which he owns. He has
demonstrated unusual ability as a farmer and in business
transactions, being very successful in his enterprises.
He is a Republican in politics. He is a Mason and
also belongs to the Junior Order of American Mechanics.
Mrs. Jarman belongs to the Christian church,.
They have four children, all born near Chilo: Paul,
born July 16, 1904, attends the school at Beech Grove,
which his father and grandfather Jarman attended;
Alice, born Apr. 9, 1907; John, born Nov. 8,
1910, and George Allen, born May 25, 1913.
Source: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio -
Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 110 |
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ROBERT L. JOHNSTON.
The Johnston Paint Company 224-30 Main street,
Cincinnati, wholesale and retail dealers and
manufacturers of paints, oils and paint supplies of all
kinds, is well known over the entire United States by
reason of the excellency of their products and the
business integrity and enterprising methods of the men
who are at the head of the concern. The company
makes a specialty of "Johnston's Dull Kote"
paint, which gives such perfect satisfaction in every
way.
The officials of the company are as follows:
R. F. Johnston, president; R. L. Johnston,
vice-president; W. G. Johnston, secretary, and
H. P. Aiken, treasurer. The board of directors
are: R. F. Johnston, R. L. Johnston, W. G.
Johnston, H. P. Aiken, B. F. Bruenger, Charles Boalt
and Lowe Emerson.
The Johnston Paint Company was incorporated
in 1905, with a capitalization of $50,000, and employs
nine traveling representatives, who distribute their
goods from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the
Great Lakes to Mexico. The growth and progress of
this company has been very gratifying to all who
are interested in any way.
Mr. Robert L. Johnston is a native of Clermont
county, his birth having occurred at Moscow, August 30,
1846. He is a son of William and Mary (Fee)
Johnston, the latter being also a native of the
county and died in the forty-seventh year of her age, at
her home in Moscow, Ohio.
William Johnston was born at Campbell, Scotland,
in 1806, and came to America with his widowed mother
when he was nine years of age. They located at
Nicholsville, Monroe township, and there William
was reared and educated in the school at that place.
Later he studied medicine and practiced at Moscow, where
he resided until his death, in 1876. He was a
Mason, being a Knight Templar.
The marriage of Mr. Johnston to Miss Mary
Pattison was celebrated in Moscow, Ohio. Her
father, W. G. Pattison, resides in Brown county,
where she was born.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnston have had six children born
to their union: Robert F.; L. P. is in the
War Department at Washington, D. C., where he was
married, and is the father of one child, a daughter;
W. G., of Cincinnati, is a member of the Johnston
Paint Company; Miss Mary A., at home; Mrs. Dr.
George Lane, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Mrs. C. B.
Jones, of Cincinnati, is the mother of one child.
The life of Mr. Johnston has been one of great
activity in business, and is an example of that class of
men who, by their earnest and honest industry, have
achieved success in the battle of life, being rewarded
by a measure of prosperity.
Source: History of
Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron
Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 799 |
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GEO.
G. JONES. Mr. George G. Jones is
known throughout the manufacturing circles of Clermont
county, Ohio, as a. man of unquestioned integrity and
sound business judgment, combined with a never failing
courtesy to all with whom he is called upon to meet.
The present prosperous condition of the Jones
Heel Manufacturing Company, of which he is president
and active general manager, is largely due to his
energetic efforts.
Mr. Jones is not a native of Clermont
county, his birth having occurred at Fishing Creek, Pa.,
on Dec. 5, 1872. He is a son of Francis W. and
Monema (Gregory) Jones, the former of whom was a
miller of Fishing Creek, Pa. George G. Jones
was reared and educated at Fishing Creek, until he was
about eighteen years of age, when he entered the
Valparaiso University, in the class of 1892, and was
graduated from the scientific department with the degree
of Bachelor of Science. He then entered upon the
study of civil engineering, which he followed for a
short period.
The real business career of the subject of this review
began at Orangeville, Pa., in 1894, when he entered into
a partnership for the manufacture of shoe heels. In this
venture he met with a reasonable success until in 1903,
when he was visited by an unfortunate fire, which
carried away his entire business. He was only
partially reimbursed by insurance, but with his
accustomed optimism did not allow his misfortune to
master him, for in 1905 he was again in business.
Mr. George G. Jones was married in New York
City, on Dec. 4, 1897, to Miss Ruby Jean DeLong,
of Orangeville, Pa., where she was born and received her
education. She is a daughter of Jerome B. and
Flora (Golder) DeLong.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones are the parents of four
children:
Mabel Jeannette
was born at Orangeville, Pa., May 20, 1902.
Rebecca Jean was
born at Orangeville, Pa., Dec. 30, 1903.
Frances Louise was born
at Batavia, Ohio, Dec. 22, 1905.
George G.. Jr., was born
at Batavia, Ohio, Feb. 7, 1911.
In political views, Mr. Jones is a
Republican, but is not an office seeker, prefering
rather the quiet and peace of the private citizen.
His first ballot was cast for President
McKinley.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Jones are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and in his former home he
was a teacher of the normal class in Sunday school.
In 1907 he became a member of the Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons of Batavia, of which he has served as
senior warden and has taken the royal arch degree.
Although he has been in Clermont county but seven
years, Mr. Jones has made himself a
leading figure in the affairs of the county, and the
town in which he is making his home.
Source: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio
- Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 454 |
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WILLIAM
H. JONES. William H. Jones is a
substantial farmer and stock raiser of Jackson township,
and is respected as an upright citizen. He is
largely self-made and has made his way in the world
through energy and hard work. He is an intelligent
and progressive farmer and successfully follows approved
modern methods in his operations. He was born in
Sterling township, Brown county, Ohio, Sept. 20, 1869,
son of Levi and Sarah (Doris) Jones, natives of
Clermont and Brown counties, respectively. The
father was born near Goshen in 1845, and now lives on
the farm in Brown county, where all his children were
born. He served from Ohio in the One Hundred Day
Service, and by trade was a mechanic, carpenter and
chair maker, following these occupations for a number of
years. The mother was born in 1845 also.
They had four children:
Etta, wife of Harvey Cregar,
deceased;
Almeda, wife of Charles Patton, of
Clinton county, Ohio;
William H., and
George C., of Brown county.
Mr. Jones attended school in Sterling
township, Brown county, remaining with his father until
attaining his majority. On Mar. 19, 1888, he was
united in marriage with Miss Minerva Wallace,
born near New Hope, Scott township, Brown county, June
14, 1870, daughter of Nichols and Martha (Brown)
Wallace, natives of Brown county. Mr.
Wallace was born in 1848 and his wife in 1850,
and they now live in Clermont county, although for many
years they carried on farming in Brown county.
They had fifteen children, born in the two counties just
mentioned, namely:
Four who did not reach maturity;
Sarah, wife of Adam Morse, living
near Edenton;
Ella, wife of Allen Malot, of Brown
county;
Minerva, Mrs. Jones;
Zerelda, wife of Walter Henderson, of
Warren county, Ohio;
Addie, wife of Gus Hulick, of
Batavia, Clermont county;
Laura and Lena, twins, the former living in
Cincinnati, and the latter the wife of Richard
McElfreth, and is now deceased;
Levi, of Clermont county, married Gertrude
Turner;
Goldie, wife of Quinn Leonard, of
Owenton, Ky.;
Eli, at home with his parents;
Zetta, wife of Jacob Lang, of
Cincinnati.
Both the Jones and Wallace
families were among the very early settlers of Brown
county.
After marriage Mr. Jones and his wife spent four
years in Brown county, spent two years in Pike township,
spent the two succeeding years at Crosstown, Clermont
county, and returned to Brown county. Eight years
later they located at East Fork, Jackson township,
Clermont county, remained there three years, and in
March, 1909, moved to their present home on the farm
owned by Samuel Pridmore, an uncle of
Mr. Jones. He runs two hundred and
nineteen acres of land, devoted to general farming, and
does well for himself and for the owner. He is a
Democrat in politics, and he and his wife are members of
the Methodist church. They have had five children,
of whom three now survive, namely:
Alma, born in Clermont county, Sept. 22, 1888,
died at the age of twenty-one months, and is buried in
Brown county;
Carroll, born in Brown county, in 1891, married
Miss Florence Johnson, of Clermont
county, and they have one child, William;
Etta, born in Brown county, in 1894, at home;
Letha, born in 1896, died when two days old;
Goldie Catherine, born in Clermont
county, in August, 1910.
The family have a wide acquaintance and many warm
friends. Anthony Wallace, the
grandfather of Mrs. Jones, and her uncle,
Jacob Wallace, served in the Civil war,
John and James Jones, uncles of William H. Jones,
also served in that war from Ohio.
Source: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio
- Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 815 |
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ALONZO JUDD Source: History of
Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron
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