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Source:
History of Darke County, Ohio
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Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co.
1880.
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BENJAMIN C. JACKSON, farmer and teacher; P. O.
Arcanum. Born in New Jersey July 4, 1828; his parents being
dead, he lived with his grandfather until 1845, when he entered the
Mt. Retirement Seminary, Sussex Co., Vt., where he remained until
1848, then engaged in teaching till 1851, at which time he entered
upon duty with the N. Y. & E. R. R. Co. as telegraph, freight and
ticket agent at Chester, Orange Co., N. Y., where he remained until
1856; he then engaged as book-keeper in a wholesale cigar and liquor
store in New York City until 1857; and since has been principally
engaged in teaching. In 1861, he united in marriage in
Montgomery Co., Ohio, with Mary A. Kimmel, and by this union
has two children, viz., Carrie V. and George E.
In 1872, he came to Darke Co. and bought the farm of 57 acres where
he now lives, in Sec. 7, valued at $3,500.
Source: History of Darke County, Ohio - Illustrated - Publ. Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co., 1880 - Page 652 |
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DANIEL JAMISON, manufacturer of and dealer in
brick; P. O. Greenville; the subject of this memoir was born in
Darke Co., Sept. 8, 1849, where he has since resided, and where he
obtained a common-school education, and at the age of 21 commenced
life for himself, and has since, by his own exertion, accumulated a
liberal amount of means for a person of his age.
Source: History of Darke County, Ohio -1880. -
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LUCINDA JAQUA, retired, New Madison
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Source:
History of Darke County, Ohio -1880. -
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LEWIS E. JONES, Presbyterian minister, Sec. 4.
The subject of this sketch was born in Cardinganshire, Great
Britain, Mar. 23, 1834; he was engaged in the manufacture of iron at
Merthyr Tydvyl until 20 years of age, when he emigrated to America,
landing in New York May 17, 1855; he received a good common school
education in Great Britain; his preparatory education being received
at the Herron Seminary, at Cincinnati, he entered the Ohio Wesleyan
University, at Delaware, Ohio, in 1859, pursuing his studies here
until the spring of 1861, and, in the fall of the same year, he
entered the Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, from which he
graduated in 1864; he then presided as Pastor over the Presbyterian
Church of Greenville, for one year, during which time he united the
Old and New School Presbyterian Churches by his efforts.
During the fall of 1864 and the early part of the winter of 1865, he
was upon the battle-fields of Tennessee, administering to the wants
of our Union patriots, having been appointed by the call of
President Johnson, to preach a sermon to a union of churches at
Greenville, in commemoration of the death of the lamented Lincoln.
From 1865 to 1867, he presided over the Presbyterian Church at
Tippecanoe city; then three years at Rising Sun, Ind.; thence to
Reynoldsburg until 1861; thence to Edgar Co., Ill., where he
remained until 1876, when he returned to his present place, and, on
account of ill health, retired from the ministry until the spring of
1878 when he accepted a call as Pastor of State supply of the
Presbyterian Church at Gettysburg, which position he now holds.
Upon locating here in 1865, he possessed very little property, save
his valuable library. His residence is located one and
one-fourth miles from Greenville. On the 2-th of September,
1865, he was united in marriage with Amanda Griffin; she was
born in Butler Co., Ohio, Feb. 14, 1836; she is the oldest daughter
of David Griffin, who located in Darke Co. in 1856.
Source: History of Darke County, Ohio -1880. -
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