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JOHN LINEBAUGH.     The father and mother of the subject of this sketch, Abraham Linebaugh and Elizabeth Wickel were born in York county, Pennsylvania, where they were married in 1805.  Immediately after marriage they removed to Union county, Pennsylvania, where they lived until his death, in 1823.  His widow, with her children, consisting of six sons and one daughter, then returned to York county, where she died in 1862.  The children were:  Mary , Daniel, Abraham, Jesse, John, William and Henry.  Abraham died in 1877, at the age of sixty-six.  the others are all living, and all but two in Pennsylvania.  John and Henry live in Jackson township, Franklin county.
     John Linebaugh was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1815.  He obtained a limited education in the subscription schools of the day, and when nineteen years of age, apprenticed himself to learn the trade of a carpenter, at which he served two years.  By the terms of his contract, he was to receive his board and a pair of shoes worth one dollar and twenty-five cents, instead of serving three years, with a little larger pay.  After faithfully serving his time, he was able to obtain but seven dollars a month besides his expenses, and little work to do at any price.  He then came to Ohio, arriving in Columbus May 10, 1837, where he found employment, and worked at his trade until 1864.  Being economical and saving, he was able to accumulate considerable property, and some time before giving up working at his trade, he was able to purchase a good farm in the southwest part of Jackson township, where he now lives.  He owns six hundred and ninety-five acres of land, the result of his own unaided efforts, and is comfortably situated in life.  From choice he has always remained single and at present boards in his own house, with his nephew, Abraham L. Linebaugh, who manages his farm.
     Mr. Linebaugh has never worked much at farming, and is possessed on a sufficiency of this world's goods to allow him a comfortable livelihood without having recourse to hard labor.
Page 389 - Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880

THE LISLE FAMILY of which John Lisle, of Hamilton township is the oldest living representative, was among the first      that settled in Franklin county.  The grandfather, John Lisle, was a nataive of Ireland, but when a young man, emigrated to the United States with an older brother.  He married, in Pennsylvania, Rachel Irwin, and remained in that State a few years, when he removed to Kentucky.  He purchased there a military claim, but subsequently lost it, the title proving invalid.  In 1798 he emigrated, with his family, consisting of his wife and eight children, to Ohio, and settled in Franklinton.  He remained there about a year, during which he cultivated a piece of land belonging to Lucas Sullivant, when he removed three miles farther north, and settled in Clinton township, taking u p two hundred acres and making his location on the place now owned by J. O. Lisle.  He died there in 1810.  His wife survived him a number of years, and died at Lancaster.  The children of John and Rachel Lisle were: Robert, Margaret, Elizabeth, James, Rebecca, Jane, John, and Rachel, all now deceased.  Margaret was the wife of James McElvain, one of the early pioneers of Franklin county, but finally removing with his family to Indiana; James married Mary Golliford, and was a resident of Hamilton township until his death; Rebecca married Joseph Young, and resided in Fairfield county; Jane became the wife of Samuel Maynard, lived in Clinton a number of years, and then removed to Sandusky; John married Thankful Maynard, and soon afterward removed to Indiana; Rachel married William Sackett, first settled in Fairfield county, but eventually moved to Putnam county.
     Robert, the oldest of the family, and the father of John Lisle, whose portrait appears on another page, was born Sept. 28, 1785; married in Fairfield county, in 1810, Abigail McIntyre, and settled in Clinton township, where he lived four years; then moved into Hamilton and located on a farm now occupied by his son, Harvey.  He died Mar. 31, 1862, and his wife April 17th, of the same year.  They were the parents of twelve children, of whom John was the oldest.  He was born in Clinton township, Franklin county, Ohio, Dec. 19, 1810.  He remained at home, at work upon the farm of his father, until twenty-three years of age, when he was married, on the anniversary of his birth - Dec. 19, 1833 - to Eliza Breckenridge, daughter of Robert and Lucy Breckenridge, who was born in Franklinton, July 23, 1810.  Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother (Lucy Foley) of Virginia.  They both came to Franklin county, Ohio, with their respective parents, when children, and were married in 1808 or 1809.  They resided for many years in Hamilton township, but finally moved into Franklin township, locating on the river, where Mr. Breckenridge survived her husband several years, and died in Columbus.  Mrs. Lisle is the oldest of eleven children, of whom, besides herself, one son and four daughters are living.  After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Lisle remained on his father's farm, in Clinton, some seven or eight years, when they removed to Hamilton, and settled on the farm on which they now live.  They are the parents of four children, as follows:  Robert B., born Jan. 30, 1835, died June 18, 186_; Samuel Harvey, born Nov. 15, 1836, married Eliza Jane Johnston (who is now deceased), and died July 9, 1868; George W., born Oct. 21, 1828, married Demeris Helsel, and now resides in Madison township; and Louisa Jane, born October 29, 1842.
     Mr. Lisle has always been engaged in farming; has given strict attention to his chosen occupation; and has lived a quiet, unostentatious, but useful life.  He has held various official trusts in his township, and for three years was director of the county infirmary.  He has one sister and one brother now living, namely: Rachel, now Mrs. Jacob Low, residing in Union county, Ohio; and Harvey, on the homestead in Hamilton.  He married Priscilla Moore.
Page 389 - Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880

THE LUNN FAMILY.  William Lunn, the first member of the family to emigrate to America, left England under very peculiar circumstances, in about the year 1700.  Some friends of his were about to sail for America, and he accompanied them on board the ship to bid them a last farewell.  When he had taken his leave of them he found, to his surprise, that the vessel had started on her voyage, and was bearing him, an unwilling passenger, to a foreign country, with no preparation for such a journey, and without even a coat on his back.  But he made the best of the circumstances, and when they arrived at their destination, proceeded to Berks county, Pennsylvania, where he settled, and married, and raised a family.
     Josiah Lunn, son of William Lunn, when a young man, married and raised a family, consisting of six sons and one daughter.  His son, Josiah Lunn, was born May 7, 1759.  He married Mary Vastine, whose father, Benjamin Vastine, came from Holland.  To them were born six sons and three daughters.  Their son, Benjamin Vastine Lunn, was born Feb. 3, 1803.  He married Elizabeth Ride, whose mother came from Scotland.  After marriage, in company with his mother, three brothers, and two sisters, they came to Franklin county, Ohio, arriving May 22, 1833.  In the fall of the same year, they bought a farm on the bank of Black Lick, in Truro township, two and a half  miles north of Reynoldsburg.  On this land was a saw- and grist-mill, but he was not long able to manage them, as he sickened with lung fever, and died the following winter, leaving a widow and one son - Josiah R., born  Sept. 17, 1831.  Another son - Benjamin Vastine Lunn - was born Feb. 10, 1834.  Thus, to his early manhood, was the husband and father called hence, leaving his family in a new country, and on property illy suited to their circumstances.
     His son, Josiah R. Lunn, was married, Oct. 9, 1845, to Margaret Graham.