BIOGRAPHIES

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Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago & New York
1920
Transcribed by Sharon Wick

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	SETH JAQUA ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 410
	CHARLES JOHNSON.    The late Charles Johnson, of Swan Creek Township, always voted the democratic ticket, and for many years he was a deacon in the Christian Church, of which Mr. Johnson is a member today.  He was a son of John and Cynthia (Saulsbury) Johnson, and was born Jan. 6, 1841, in York Township.  He died Mar. 18, 1886, at the age of forty-five years.  The Johnson family were early settlers in Fulton county.      In May, 1862, Mr. Johnson married Amanda M. Pierce, of Indianapolis.  She is a daughter of Eber and Betsey (Vandalium) Pierce.  They resided in Stark county, Indiana, until the fall of 1864, when they moved to York Township.  In 1883 they removed to the present home in Swan Creek Township.  It was an unimproved farm when they came to it.  Since the death of her husband Mrs. Johnson has continued living there.  A son, Charles, remained several years with her, and then a grandson, Arthur Stits, operated the farm, but now Mrs. Johnson lives alone.  The fields are rented and she has a garden and poultry.      There are five children:  Ada, who died in young womanhood; G. William, of West Alton, Missouri; Nettie, wife of John Whitmeyer, of Pike Township; Ledora, of Cleveland; and Charles P., of Toledo.      While he did not live long enough to realize all his plans and ambition for the improvement of his farm and the making of a home in Swan Creek Township.  Mr. Johnson had lived effectively and worthily during the years allotted to him, and grateful memory is cherished of his character and deeds by his descendants.  Mrs. Johnson on her part did nobly in carrying forward the farm and rearing her children, and is one of the very highly esteemed women of Fulton county. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 264
	DAVIS B. JOHNSON, the eldest of a family of seven children and the son of Arby D. Johnson and Effie Sellers Johnson, was born one-half mile south and one mile west of the village of Metamora, Amboy township, Fulton township as Duncan Town, on the 30th day of December, 1880.      Sullivan Johnson, grandfather of Davis, was a Vermonter by birth and of Scotch descent, he being the son of Abel Johnson and Roby Thomas Jefferson.  Sullivan Johnson came to the State of Ohio and settled with his father near Geneva, Lake county, Ohio.  He afterward came to Toledo, Ohio, where he met and married Phidelia Worden, at a time when that city could boast of only two or three little log houses.  Sullivan Johnson settled in Amboy township about the year 1835, and played an important part in the early settlement of Amboy township and what is now Fulton county.  He served two terms as sheriff of Fulton county, receiving his election by the republican party to which he was a faithful and ardent member.     Elias Sellers, grandfather on the mother's side, was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, an early settler of Dover township, Fulton county, Ohio, and a veteran of the Civil war.      During the winter months Davis attended the public schools of his native township and assisted his father on the farm in the summer time.  He attended the public school in the village of Tedrow, Dover township, for a number of winters while the school was under supervision of Professor C. G. Miller to whom he is indebted greatly for the education he has received.  While attending the school at Tedrow he was nicknamed "Jeff Davis."      After leaving the Tedrow school he spent one winter in the Fayette Normal and received a teacher's certificate the following spring.  His first term of school was taught in the little brick school house east of Seward, Ohio, about one-half mile, the same building and same school district in which he was first enrolled as a scholar. At first he was not very successful as a schoolmaster, and quite the profession for about two years.      Thinking the matter over one day he came to the conclusion that he had been a quitter and decided to take another try at the business, and applied for a school in Amboy, his native township.  After teaching the year in this district he was employed in the village school at Metamora, where he taught for about twelve years.  During that time the school grew from a two-room school to the first grade high school, with  one of the most modern buildings in the county.  During this period he attended summer school in vacation time and studied.      He spent two winters in the Chattanooga Law School of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was admitted to the bar in the state of Ohio on the first day of July, 1916.      In politics Mr. Johnson has always been a strong and active republican.  He served six years as a member of the Village Council of Metamora, Ohio, and has held many important position on the County Central and Executive Committees of his party.  In the fall election of 1914 he was elected clerk of courts of the county, and re-elected in the fall of 1916.  Retiring from that office on the first Monday of August, 1919, he opened an office for the practice of law in Wauseon, Ohio, in which practice he is now engaged.      Mr. Johnson was married Dec. 30, 1915, at Wauseon, Ohio, to Lillian Tressler, an adopted daughter of John and Louisa (Smith) Strong, of Wauseon.  Mr. Johnson has one daughter, Louisa Elizabeth Johnson, born Sept. 27, 1919.      Mr. Johnson is well known in the Masonry of his county, being a member of Wauseon Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Wauseon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Wauseon Council, Royal and Select Masons, and Defiance Commandery, Knights Templar.      Mr. Johnson is of an active and progressive nature, always for public improvement, good roads, good schools, good citizenship.  He is one of the most dependable citizens of the county and is always ready and willing to contribute his services both in a private and professional capacity for civic betterment.  His advancement has been steady, and each step has been gained through earnest and painstaking efforts.  He has many friends throughout the county, and his further progress is watched with interest by all who know him. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 60
	BAYARD FLOYD JONES ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 438
	JEREMIAH (JERRY) JONES ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 435
	SHERMAN ALFRED JONES ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 322
	CHARLES H. JORDAN ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 56
	EDWARD HARVEY JORDAN ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 56

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