Marion Twp. -
ALFRED JAMES, farmer, P. O. Blanchester, son of Joseph and Catherine (Kelley) James, was born near Loveland, Warren County, in 1827.  Reared on a farm.  His parents emigrated from Virginia to Cincinnati about 1817.  When four years of age they moved to this township and bought 344 acres of land, 148 of which our subject now owns, eighty under cultivation.  His father died in March, 1862, his mother in November, 1872.  Mr. James served nearly ten months in the war of the rebellion.  Enlisted at Hillsboro, in 1864, in Company G, Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Wolf.  He is in the battle of Franklin, Tenn.  The remainder of the time he was on guard duty.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 1073

Adams Twp. -
JOSEPH R. JOHNSON, farmer, P. O. Ogden, was born May 24, 1852, in Clinton County, Ohio, near Gurneyville.  He is the son of Lewis and Rachel Johnson.  He was reared to manhood on a farm, receiving but an ordinary English education.  On Jan. 1, 1875, he married Miss Minerva J. Bennett, daughter of Henry H. and Nancy Bennett.  They are the happy parents of two children—Irvin H. and Mary Anna.  Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are both of them consistent members of the Friends’ Church.  Mr. Johnson, in his political views, is a stanch Republican.  He owns eighty-five acres of good land, located about one and one-half miles west of Sligo Village.  Mr. Johnson is a young man of industrious habits, and we trust will ever be a useful man to the community in which he resides.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 926