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CAMPBELL
JOHNSTON AND FAMILY. The subject of this sketch
settled in Cincinnati about the year 1820. He was born
in county Derry, Ireland, and, with his younger brother,
James (who was for many years city treasurer of
Cincinnati,) emigrated to this country during the War of
1812, their young hearts full of sympathy for the American
flag. After some years spent in Pennsylvania and at
St. Louis, trading, the two brothers entered into a
wholesale grocery, dry goods, and hardware business on the
west side of Main, a few doors below Second, and carried on
a successful business until 1832, when he retired to a large
farm near Mt. Carmel, in Clermont county, Ohio. The
style of the firm was C. & J. Johnston. He died
there in 1843. He was universally esteemed and
respected. He never made any enemies, for, whether as
merchant or farmer, he was absolutely fair and honest with
all with whom he came in contact. In religious faith
he was a staunch Presbyterian, and worshipped at the old
frame building where now stands the imposing First
Presbyterian Church edifice, on Fourth street, near Main,
Dr. Joshua Wilson then being pastor. So zealous
was he, that, upon his removal to Clermont county, with the
assistance of his brother James, he organized a
society and erected a substantial church building there,
which today has a numerous and influential congregation.
As a merchant he was full of enterprise and adventure,
making many voyages in the keel-boat to New Orleans with
produce, returning laden with sugar, molasses, etc., the
only motive power being the pole, the paddle, and shore
line. Months were consumed in a trip, attended with
great labor as well as many dangers. As a farmer he
was progressive, expending much in the introduction of fine
breeds of horses and cattle. In politics he was an
unflinching Democrat, a great admirer of Andrew Jackson,
whom in personal appearance he much resembled. He
married Miss Jerush Sandford, of Bridgehampton, Long
Island, New York, meeting her here while she was on a visit
to relatives. She survived him, dying in 1854.
She was a devoted wife, a kind mother, and lived the life of
a true, noble, Christian woman. They sleep sweetly in
beautiful Spring Grove. Fie children wee born of their
marriage, all of whom are living - John, James S.,
and Nancy C. born at Cincinnati, and Hannah H.
and Robert A. born at Mt. Carmel, Ohio.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 469 |
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COLONEL A. E. JONES, M. D., was born in
Greensborough, Green county, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1819,
and is the son of Robert and Anna (Eberhardt) Jones.
His early education was carefully nurtured under the
guidance of his parents. At the age of fifteen he
entered the dry goods store of his father, and also engaged
with his father in the manufacture of window glass in the
first factory built west of the Alleghany mountains.
In 1837 we find him a student in the old Cincinnati college,
and in 1838 at Washington college, Pennsylvania, and later a
student in Philadelphia. In 1841 he began the practice
of medicine in his native town, and ere long ranked among
the best and most successful physicians of his place.
In 1845 he married Miss Jane R. Metcalf, niece of
Governor Thomas Metcalf, a former governor of Kentucky.
He, in 1846, resided in Fulton. In 1848 he was
president of the town council of Fulton. In 1852 he
moved to Walnut Hills. He was for five years a member
of the city council. At the breaking out of the late
civil war he was selected to take charge of the military
matters of Cincinnati, as acting brigadier general with the
rank of colonel. In 1862 he was appointed military
governor, performing the functions of that office during the
Kirby Smith raid and until April, 1863, and in May,
1863, by request of President Lincoln, was made
provost marshal of the First district of Ohio. At the
close of the war he began the practice of medicine on Walnut
Hills. In the intervals of 1865 and 1868 Dr. Jones
devoted his entire time to the practice of his profession,
acquiring a large and lucrative practice. Dr. Jones,
amid the routine of public and private life, has been
actively engaged in preparing a history of Cincinnati, which
is to be published in two volumes.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 480 |
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GEORGE EDWIN JONES,
M. D., of Cincinnati, was born in New York city in 1835,
in which place he received his education. At the age
of nineteen he began the study of medicine and graduated in
the Ohio Medical college Sept. 26, 1861. At this time
he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and entered the naval
service on the gunboat flotilla under Rear Admiral Foote,
afterwards Rear Admiral C. H. Davis acting assistant
surgeon. At the bombardment of Fort Charles a sad
catastrophe occurred on his steamer, caused by a single shot
of the enemy entering the steam drum, effecting an
explosion. The doctor was badly scalded, and otherwise
injured, necessitating his withdrawal from service.
Afterward, by order from medical department United States
navy, at Washington, D. C., he was put on detached duty.
In 1864 he resigned, and from that time to this has
continued his practice (to a great extent gynecological) in
this city. The doctor has been very kindly treated by
his superior officers, who regard him as a man possessing
more than ordinary patriotism during the war. Rear
Admiral Foote, and Davis, as well as the
authorities at Washington have shown, by their warm letters
of friendship, the kindliest regard for him, and have
expressed themselves respecting his worth in the profession,
to the service, in the strongest terms. He was
professor of anatomy in the dental school of Cincinnati
several years after the war, and was also professor of
microscopical anatomy for two years. He was married to
Miss Ellen Yale Roots, daughter of Philanda Higley
Roots, in the year 1866, and by this union is the father
of three children. The doctor is the inventor of a
topographical water map, an improvement in geographical maps
for illustrating water depressions the same as mountain
elevations. This is a device so ingenious and
instructive as to make it worth anyone’s while to visit him
for the purpose of examining it. For the purpose of
object teaching it excels any yet of the kind we have ever
seen.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 481 |
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I. D. JONES, M. D., was born in Newtown, Hamilton
county, Ohio, Nov. 13, 1843, and is the son of Daniel
Jones, a pioneer of Hamilton county. Our subject,
in 1865, graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university, of
Delaware, Ohio, with the highest honors. He then
returned to his native county and for several years was
engaged in teaching school, being principal for two years of
the California, Ohio, schools. He soon after began to
attend lectures at Ohio Medical college, where he graduated
in 1871. Dr. Jones was at one time resident
physician of the Good Samaritan hospital. After
graduating in medicine in 1871 he soon after came to Walnut
Hills and began the practice of his chosen profession, where
he met with good success. In 1876 he formed a
partnership with his brother, John E. Jones, in the
practice of medicine. Dr. John E. Jones was
also born in Newtown, Hamilton county, Ohio, Jan. 27, 1834,
graduating from the Ohio Wesleyan university in 1858, and
from the Ohio Medical college in 1863, when he entered the
army as assistant surgeon, where he served until the close
of the war, participating in a number of battles. At
the close of the war he returned to Hamilton county, since
which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of
medicine. In 1876 the firm of Jones & Jones was
formed, and to day is doing a large practice.
Zoheth Freeman, M. D., born July 17, 1826, in
Milton, Queens county, Nova Scotia, attended lectures at the
Buffalo Medical college, Buffalo, New York, during its first
session, and was its first matriculant. He graduated
at the Eclectic Medical institute of Cincinnati, spring
session of 1848; was professor of anatomy and operative
surgery in the Eclectic Medical college in Rochester, New
York, at its first session in 1848, also in 1849;
demonstrated anatomy in the Eclectic Medical institute at
Cincinnati during the winter and spring sessions of 1848-9;
was professor of anatomy and demonstrator of anatomy in the
Medical college of Memphis, Tennessee, during its first
session in 1849, also in 1850, giving the first lectures on
anatomy in that institute and assisting to establish that
college, also practicing medicine and surgery in that city
for two years. He returned to Cincinnati and was
professor of anatomy and demonstrator of anatomy in the
Eclectic Medical institute during the two sessions of 1851
and the spring session of 1852; was professor of surgery in
the same institute from 1853 to 1855; was then elected
professor of the principles and practice of medicine and
pathology, and lectured during the session of 1855-6; was
then reelected to the chair of professor of surgery, and
occupied it until 1870. In 1871 was made professor of
clinical medicine and surgery, and still occupies that
position. He has been in active practice of surgery
and medicine in Cincinnati since 1851. The greatest
number of students in attendance of lectures at the Eclectic
Medical institute any one year, including spring and winter
sessions, was four hundred. He was married Oct. 9,
1856, to Ellen Ricker, daughter of Hon. E. T.
Ricker, Clermont county, Ohio. She is
distinguished as an artist in carving. His only son,
Leonard Ricker Freeman, born Dec. 16, 1860, is a
student in the McMicken university, Cincinnati. He is
a lover of natural history and has made nice collections of
Indian relics, minerals, etc.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 481 |
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JOSEPH JONES - This
venerable pioneer, noted on page 68 of this volume as still
living, has died since the statement was written and
printed. On the morning of the twenty-fifth of April,
1881, at his residence in Cincinnati, he departed this life,
aged ninety-five years. His death elicited many
expressions of interest and regret, including elaborate
notices in the newspapers.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 496 |
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