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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
CENTENNIAL HISTORY
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Troy, Piqua and Miami County, Ohio
And Representative Citizens.
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Edited and Compiled By
Thomas C. Harbaugh
Casstown, Ohio
Literary Journalist, Secretary of Maryland association of Ohio.
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"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples."
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Published by
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
Chicago.
1909
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DORSEY WARD JAY, a
leading citizen of Monroe Township, a member of the School
Board for a number of years and at present also serving as
township assessor, resides on his valuable farm of sixty
acres, which lies on the Frederick and Gingham Turnpike Road
and adjoins Frederick. He was born on this farm, Sept.
6, 1861, and is a son of William and Esther (Furnas) Jay.
The Jay family was
established in Miami County by the grandfather, Danny Jay
who came to this neighborhood from South Carolina. He
was one of the early settlers and lived here until over
seventy years of age, dying in 1867. He lived to see
many changes and often told his children of the hardships
and disadvantages of the early days in this section.
He frequently hauled his produce as far as Cincinnati in
order to find a market. The Jay family
originally were Quakers but later became united with the
Christian Church and now almost all of the name are members
of this religious body. The six children of Denny
Jay were: Isaac, deceased; Thomas,
deceased, who was a Quaker preacher; Mary, now
deceased; William, father of Dorsey W.; Eli,
who is an educator at Richmond, Indiana; and Levi,
who is now deceased.
WILLIAM JAY was born in Miami County, Ohio, in
1820. His early life was spent in assisting his father
clear up the pioneer farm, but his educational necessities
were not neglected and he was sent to Antioch College and
also to Oberlin University. He then engaged in
teaching school and subsequently served as superintendent of
the Milton public schools for-three years. In
association with his brother Eli, he built the first
school building at Frederick. He became a minister in
the Christian Church and served as such for many years and
was instrumental in raising enough money to build the church
at Frederick, in
1878. His death occurred on his farm when he was aged
fifty-eight years, in 1881. He married Esther
Furnas, a daughter of John Furnas, also
a pioneer settler in this section, from South Carolina.
She died in January, 1899, when aged seventy-five years.
They had four children, namely: Emma, who married
James Leonard, of Frederick; Horace;
Estella, who died in infancy; and Dorsey
Ward.
Following the death of his mother, Dorsey Ward
Jay purchased the homestead farm, on which, with the
exception of three years and during his absences while
attending school, he has passed all his life. In
boyhood he was entered as a pupil in a select school and
later attended the public schools of Milton, going from
there to the Covington High School and then spent some time
at Earlham College, at Richmond, Indiana. In 1882 he
embarked in a general store business at Frederick, which he
continued until 1888, and then returned to the farm.
He carries on a general farming line and devotes eight acres
to tobacco growing.
During his period of residence at Frederick, Mr.
Jay was married to Miss Belle Shearer,
who is a daughter of Henry and Lina (Hurley)
Shearer. Henry Shearer died in
1897, aged seventy-two years. His widow died May,
1909, in her seventy-eighth year. They had five
children: Theodore H., Mary C., Ira,
Elizabeth and Belle. Mr. and Mrs. Jay
have one son, Harry, who married Hazel
Barnes. In politics, Mr. Jay is a
stanch Republican. He has served as township assessor
for the past six years and has long been a member of the
School Board, a part of the time being its clerk. He
is a Knight of Pythias, belonging to lodge No. 238, at West
Milton.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 597 |
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D.
C. JOHNSON, a substantial citizen of Newberry
Township, Miami County, Ohio, owns and resides upon a farm
of 180 acres located on the Troy Pike, about one mile
southeast of Covington, he has lived on this farm since
Sept. 2, 1856, having at that time moved from Wayne
Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, where he was born.
The date of his birth is Feb. 26, 1831, and he is a son of
JOSEPH and Mary J. (Stoker) Johnson.
His father was a native of Virginia and became a prominent
farmer of Wayne Township, Montgomery County, whither he
moved in his early days.
D. C. Johnson was the youngest of thirteen
children and was but two years old when his father died and
thirteen at his mother's death. He went to live with
Squire Thomas Crook, father of
General George Crook, who attained distinction in
the Union Army during the Civil War. He and General
Crook were reared to manhood together, and he
continued to live at the Crook home until his marriage in
1852. He and his wife set up housekeeping on a farm of
seventy-five acres in Wayne Township, which he owned, but in
December of the same year moved to a farm one mile east of
his present farm in Newberry Township, where he bought
eighty acres. After three years he moved back to Wayne
Township, Montgomery County, where he remained one summer.
He then purchased 160 acres of his present farm, to which he
later added twenty acres; a brick house had been erected on
the place in 1852, which he has since more than doubled in
size and improved in every way. He has other good
substantial buildings on the place and one encounters few
farms so well improved. He and his wife own a
sixty-acre farm about a mile east of their home, which is
farmed by their son, Henry Johnson.
On Mar. 18, 1852, Mr. Johnson was joined
in marriage with Mary Jane Brenner, who
was born about seven miles north of the court-house in
Dayton, in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, and is a
daughter of Jacob and Sarah Ann
(Mathews) Brenner. The following children were
born to them: Sarah Ann, who died Dec. 31,
1856, aged two years, ten months and twenty days; Henry,
who was first married to Emma Kaufman
(deceased), and second to Mary Dick; Jacob,
a blacksmith of Covington, who married Lucy Dickey
and has a daughter, Mary; William Clement,
who married Henrietta Kruse, by whom he had a
daughter, Clara, now deceased; and Oscar, who
married Viola Landis and has two children
living, Oscar Millison and Ferril
Amanda. Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson have had fifty-seven years of married happiness,
and are living in the enjoyment of comparative good health.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 671 |
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EUGENE
JOHNSON, the leading real estate dealer at Piqua and
the pioneer in the business, has been a resident of this
city for twenty-seven years, during twenty of which he has
been actively engaged in the real estate business. He
was born in 1851, in Gallatin County, Kentucky, but was
reared from the age of nine years at Waveland, Montgomery
County, Ohio, where his parents settled.
Mr. Johnson was educated in the public
schools and at Waveland Academy, an institution conducted
under the supervision of the Presbyterian Church. In
early manhood he went to Kansas, where he looked up land
claims for two years. After he returned to Ohio he
engaged in the drug business at Waveland until he was
twenty-two years old, removing then to Noblesville, Indiana.
He continued in the drug line there until he came to Piqua,
in 1881, where he carried on the same business for six
years. He then turned his attention to the real estate
business and has done considerable building and selling and
has platted some 600 lots. He confines his activities
to city and farm property. When he entered into the
business at Piqua a real estate agency was a new venture,
and he has been the practical builder of this line of trade.
In his own operations he has never had a bad title given
through his office and there has never been a foreclosure of
a loan. He has negotiated for the larger number of
Piqua 's numerous factories, his latest contract relating to
the immense plant to be erected by the Felt and Blanket
Company, on South Main Street, during the summer of 1909.
Among the other large transactions of this nature negotiated
through him may be mentioned the sites of the Wood, Shovel &
Tool Company, Miami Light, Heat & Power Company, Union
Underwear Company, Atlas Underwear Company, Piqua Furniture
Company, Dayton & Troy street car barn, Piqua Dyeing &
Bleaching Company, the DeArmon-McKinney Cement
Block Company and the Colonial Saxony, Piqua 's handsomest
flat building. He has also had direct charge of the
platting or subdivision of out lots of eleven additions to
the city. At different times, also, he has been
interested in other enterprises of more or less importance.
A Democrat in politics, his interest in public matters is
only that of a good citizen who desires the election of the
best qualified candidates and the assurance of good
government.
In 1879, in Noblesville, Indiana, Mr. Johnson
was married to Miss Ally Loehr, and they have
two children, Kate and Ray, the latter a
resident of California. Mr. Johnson is a
member of the Presbyterian Sunday-school and has been a
trustee of the church for six years; for more than twenty
years he has been a teacher in the Sunday-school. He
is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 434 |
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FREDERICK W. JOHNSTON,
owner of 140 acres of farm land located about three and a
half miles north of Covington, has always been a resident of
Newberry Township, Miami County, Ohio, where he is well
known and held in high esteem. He was born at
Greenville Falls, in Newberry Township, Oct. 4, 1849, and is
a son of Andrew Jackson and Mary
Ann (Thompson) Johnston, and a grandson
of Frederick
Johnston.
Frederick Johnston was a native of Ireland, and some
time after his marriage emigrated to the United States. He
settled between Enon and Yellow Springs, in Greene County,
Ohio, and the farm is still in the family name, being owned
by two of his daughters, who have never married.
Andrew Jackson Johnston was born on the ocean
while his parents were en route from Ireland to this
country, and was reared on the home farm in Greene County,
Ohio. After his marriage he moved to Covington, where
he conducted a tavern for a while, that establishment having
previously been run by his wife's people. He was a
cooper by trade, and also a wagon maker, and for a time
operated a cooper shop at Greenville Falls, but farming was
his principal occupation. About the year 1845 he
purchased a farm about midway between Piqua and Covington,
upon which he erected buildings and made other improvements,
and moved on the farm in 1850, living there until 1864.
In the fall of that year he purchased 160 acres where his
son, Frederick W., now lives, and continued to live
there and farm until his death in 1894. He was twice
married, having by his first wife a daughter, Eliza,
who died in Seattle, Washington. His second marriage
was with Mary Ann Thompson, who was born and
reared in Greene County, Ohio, to which her parents had come
from the state of Maryland. Six children were the
issue of this union, namely: James A., who lives in
San Antonio, Texas; Louisa, deceased, who was a twin
to James A. and who married William Drake;
Frederick W.; John K., also of San Antonio,
Texas; Edward, who lives at Covington; and Arthur,
who died when young. The mother of this family died in
1900.
FREDERICK W. JOHNSTON was less
than a year old when his parents moved from Greenville Falls
to the farm between Piqua and Covington, and was about
sixteen when they moved to where he now lives. He
received a common school education and has always engaged in
agricultural pursuits. He has made many important
improvements on the home place, and in 1904 erected a fine
frame house, in which he lives. Mr. Johnston
was united in marriage with Miss Sarah J. Meenach, a
daughter of Ezekiel Meenach, and they have two
children: Noel L., of Darke County, who married
Minnie Lambert and has a daughter, Neva
Arline; and Myrl C. Religiously they are
members of the Covington Presbyterian Church, of which, he
is a deacon.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page |
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H. L. JOHNSTON, manager and
chief engineer of the Hobart Electric Manufacturing Company,
has been a resident of Troy, Ohio, for thirteen years.
He was born at Bainbridge, Indiana, in 1869, and was nine
years of age when his parents moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr. Johnston attended the public schools of
Cincinnati, and afterward pursued a course of study at the
Ohio State University in electrical engineering, graduating
with the class of 1892. He entered the employ of the
General Electric Company, in the Cincinnati office, and
continued in its service for three and a half years.
In 1893 he represented that firm in the installation of the
electrical work for the interurban railroad from Troy to
Piqua, and continued here as superintendent of the work for
six months. This was the third interurban road built
in the State of Ohio, and the first to run big cars.
After retiring from the superintendency Mr.
Johnston became associated with Mr. Hobart
in electrical manufacturing, the business being incorporated
under the name of The Hobart Electric Company. He was
vice-president and treasurer of the concern until about a
year ago, when he was made manager and chief engineer.
It is one of the principal manufacturing enterprises of the
city and transacts an enormous business. Mr.
Johnston is the mechanical expert of the Troy Sunshade
Company, in which he is financially interested, and is the
patentee of several valuable articles used by that firm.
In 1900 Mr. Johnston was united in
marriage with Miss Adeline Smith, a daughter of D.
W. Smith, cashier of the First National Bank of Troy,
and they have two children, Edward and Frances.
Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the
Troy Club." In religious attachment he and his wife
are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page |
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ALBERT B. JONES, who is
general manager for the firm of Henderson &
Coppock, elevator operators of Laura, Union Township,
was born in Franklin Township, Darke County, Ohio, Apr. 14,
1876, a son of H. H. and Jane (Graham) Jones.
The father H. H. Jones, was a native of Darke County
and a carpenter by trade. He followed his trade most
of his life but for the last few years of it was station
agent for the Big Four Railroad at Laura, Miami County.
His death took place in 1903—April 11th. He married
Jane Graham, of Missouri, and their family
numbered thirteen children.
Albert B. Jones was educated in the schools of
Laura and eighteen years ago began industrial life in the
employ of the firm with which he is now connected. He
was then but fifteen years of age. Beginning in an
humble station, he has worked his way up until he is now a
partner in the company, and has full charge of the Laura
branch of the business. The company's elevator at this
point has a capacity of 20,000 bushels and is located on the
Big Four tracks. It is the only one in this section
and does an excellent business. Mr. Jones is a
Republican in politics. He belongs to the Knights of
Pythias lodge in Laura and to the Masonic lodge at West
Milton. He has taken a useful part in local affairs,
has been councilman for six years and has served as town
treasurer four years. Mr. Jones married
Lauda Jones, a daughter of Albert Jones of
this county. He and his wife reside in Union township.
They have a daughter, Frieda, who is attending
school.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 796 |
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B. W. JONES, D. D.
S., the leading dental
surgeon of Troy, has been a valued resident of this city for
the past nineteen years. He was born in 1869, near
West Unity, Fulton County, Ohio, but was mainly reared and
obtained his literary training at Hudson, Michigan.
After deciding upon dentistry as his chosen profession.
Dr. Jones gave considerable attention to preliminary
study and then entered the Indiana Dental College, at
Indianapolis, where he was graduated in 1890 with his
degree. He at once located at Troy, finding here a
hearty recognition of his professional skill, and he has
never had reason to regret his choice of home and business
field. He is a member of the Ohio State Dental
Association and he keeps thoroughly abreast of the times in
the progress made in dental science. His office is
conveniently maintained on the Public Square at No. 417˝.
He has additional business interests but devotes the larger
part of his time and attention to his profession.
In 1893 Dr. Jones was married to Miss Nora
May Lickly, of Hudson, Michigan, and they have one
daughter, Josephine. He is a Knight Templar
Mason and a Knight of Pythias, and he belongs to the Troy
Club and the Troy Business Men's Association.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 475 |
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JOHN JONES,
a well known citizen and dairyman of Washington Township,
Miami County, Ohio, resides on a farm of 191 acres located
about three miles north of Piqua on the Hardin pike and is
an extensive land owner in the county. He has been a
resident of the township and located on his present farm for
more than half a century. He is of Welsh descent but
was born in Dauphin County, Penna., Sept. 28, 1830. He
is a son of Josiah and Catharine (Alaman) Jones, his
father a native of Delaware, and is a grandson of James
Jones, who came to this country from Wales.
John Jones was reared on a farm in Dauphin
County, Penna., and received but little schooling. He
was very young when it became necessary for him to make his
own way in the world, and with the thrift characteristic of
the Welsh race he worked and saved until he became a man of
affluence. In 1858, some seven years after his
marriage, he moved west to Miami County, Ohio, the earnings
which he had saved up to that time amounting to $2,500.
He purchased ninety acres of his present farm in Washington
Township, and has added to it until it now consists of 191
acres. He and his sons own some 714 acres of land in
the county, all well improved and under a high state of
cultivation. A farm of 206 acres in Spring Creek
Township, probably the best farm in the township, he
purchased for $18,584 in cash, and erected thereon a new
house at a cost of $2,500, in which his son William
now lives. To work has been a habit with him, and
although advanced in years, he would be discontented if his
time was not employed to advantage. For the past
twenty-five years he has conducted a dairy route in Piqua,
and has the unique record of missing but one day on the
route in eleven years. He has been prominently
identified with the progress and development of Washington
Township, and for seventeen years served as a member of the
School Board.
When twenty years of age, John Jones was
married to Louisa Wagner, whom he survives,
her death occurring Dec. 31, 1893. They became parents
of the following children: Elizabeth, wife of
Josiah Wilkinson, of Piqua; Henry, who lives in
Shelby County, about one mile north of the home of his
father; Mary, wife of John Thompson of Shelby
County; William, who lives on the farm before
mentioned in Spring Creek Township; Laura, who lives
at home; Josiah, who died leaving a wife and
children; John, deceased, who was a prominent farmer
of Washington Township; Emma, who died in childhood;
and Louisa, who also died in childhood.
Religiously, Mr. Jones is a consistent member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 670 |
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HON. M. H. JONES,
a prominent lawyer of Miami County, who has been
successfully engaged in the practice of his profession for
the past sixty years, was born in the District of Columbia
in 1825. He acquired a good literary education, and
after studying law and being admitted to the bar, entered
upon the practice of his profession in Piqua, where he soon
made a name for himself as an able attorney, which
reputation he enjoys to the present day. For a number
of years beginning with 1878, he was associated in practice
with his son, now Hon. W. D. Jones, common pleas
judge, which connection was continued until the latter was
appointed by Governor Bushnell to the common
pleas judgeship, to fill the vacancy caused by the election
of Judge Theodore Sullivan as circuit court judge.
For the time of their association the firm enjoyed the
leading practice in the city of Piqua and was regarded as
one of the strongest possible combinations of legal talent.
Mr. Jones's wife was born in New Hampshire in
1828, a daughter of Timothy Davis Wood, who settled
at a comparatively early date in Miami County, Ohio.
Hon. Walter D. Jones, son of Hon. M. H. Jones,
by the above mentioned union, was born in Piqua, Ohio, June
21, 1857. He was reared and educated in his native
city, being graduated from the high school in 1872.
After leaving school he entered the industrial ranks,
learning the printers' trade and was for some time employed
in the office of the Miami Helmet, of Piqua. He was
also connected with newspapers in
an industrial capacity for several years thereafter.
While thus self-supporting, he had in the meanwhile entered
upon the study of law under his father's direction, and in
1878 was admitted to the bar before
the Supreme Court of the State at Columbus, Ohio. As
already noted, his first professional experience was gained
in partnership with his father, the firm being the leading
law firm of its day in Piqua.
Mr. Jones's appointment by Governor Bushnell
to the common pleas bench of the second judicial district of
Ohio has been already noticed. In November, 1899, he was
elected by the people to fill Judge
Sullivan's unexpired term. He was also city
solicitor of Piqua for some twelve years, being elected for
six terms, and his administration of the affairs of that
office gave excellent satisfaction to the people.
He was a careful and methodical lawyer, always coming into
court with papers well prepared. In his more elevated
position on the bench he has won the character of an able
and impartial jurist. Upright, honorable and
painstaking, his decisions are the result of careful thought
and a mind well stored and trained in all the fundamental
principles of the law. He is also a man of literary
tastes and an able writer,
though hitherto he has made no effort to gather literary
laurels. A prominent Mason, he has served as
worshipful master of Warren Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M., and as
high priest of Piqua Chapter No. 31.
Hon. Walter D. Jones was married, in 1879, to
Miss Laura Harlow of Piqua. Mrs. Jones was
born in Tennessee and came to Miami County, Ohio, with her
parents, Rev. William D. and Kate (Tuttle) Harlow,
when in her eighteenth year. Of this union there has
been one child—a daughter, Laura C.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 558 |
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SAMUEL JONES
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 802
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HON. WALTER D.
JONES, common pleas judge for the Second Judicial
District of Ohio, and one of the best known and most highly
esteemed residents of Piqua, was born in this city, June 21,
1857, son of Hon. M. H. and Jane (Wood) Jones.
His father, who resides in Piqua, and who is one of the best
lawyers in Miami County, was born in the District of
Columbia in 1825, and became a resident of Piqua, Ohio, at a
comparatively early date. For a number of years he was
associated with his son, the subject of this sketch, in a
law partnership in this city, the firm commanding the
leading practice here, and he might almost be called the
Nestor of the bar, having been engaged in legal practice
here for a period of sixty years.
Walter D. Jones was reared and educated in
Piqua, being graduated from the high school here in 1872. he
then began industrial life, learning the printer's trade, at
which he worked in the office of the Miami Helmet and in
other newspaper offices for several years. In the
meanwhile, under his father's direction, he was acquiring a
stock of legal learning, and having successfully mastered
the principles of his profession, was admitted to the bar at
Columbus, Ohio, before the Supreme Court of the State, in
1878. His first practice was in partnership with his
father, with whom he continued for a number of years, or
until his appointment by Gov. Bushnell as common
pleas judge, to fill the vacancy caused by the election of
Judge Theodore Sullivan to the Circuit Court bench.
In the November election of 1899 he was elected by the
people to fill the unexpired term of Judge Sullivan; he was
re-elected for a full term in 1902, and again re-elected in
1907. In this position, which he holds at present, he has
shown all the capabilities of an upright and learned jurist,
taking a comprehensive view of every case, and impartial in
his decisions, which are based upon a sound knowledge of the
principles of law and a careful consideration of the
evidence in every case which comes before him. His
uniform courtesy, as well to the younger as to the older
members of the profession, has made him popular with all,
and be is much esteemed by his legal confreres, as he is
respected by the citizens generally throughout the district,
who see in him a faithful and capable public servant.
Before his elevation to the bench he served for twelve years
as city solicitor of Piqua, being elected for six terms, a
record which shows the confidence reposed in him by his
fellow citizens.
In his political principles Judge Jones
is a stanch Republican, but has not been an active member in
the ranks of his party, preferring to devote his best
energies to the creditable performance of the duties
pertaining to his judicial office. Of decided literary
tastes, he is an able writer, but hitherto has not sought to
gain a reputation with his pen. He is a prominent
member of the Masonic order, has served as worshipful master
of Warren Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M., and as high priest of
Piqua Chapter, No. 31.
In 1879 Hon. Walter D. Jones was united in
marriage with Miss Laura Harlow, then and now a
resident of Piqua, but who was born in Tennessee, and who in
her eighteenth year accompanied her parents, Rev. William
D. and Kate (Tuttle) Harlow, to Miami County, Ohio.
Their union has
been blessed by the birth of one child, a daughter—Laura
C. It is a matter of pride to Judge Jones
that he has not had to go to some distant State to achieve
success, but has carved out for himself an honorable career
in the city of his birth and among those who know him
best—the friends of his early years, and those of his own
name and blood.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 746 |
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WILLIAM JONES is a
prominent farmer and dairyman of Spring Creek Township.
Miami County, Ohio, and conducts a milk route in the city of
Piqua. He resides on a farm of 126 acres, owned by his
father, which is considered one of the best improved farms
in the township.
Mr. Jones was born in Washington Township, Miami
County, Ohio, Feb. 12, 1871, and is a son of John and
Louisa (Wagner) Jones, and grandson of Josiah and
Catherine (Olaman) Jones. His great-grandfather
came to this country from Wales and settled in Delaware,
where Josiah Jones was born. John
Jones was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and
after his marriage came to Miami County, Ohio, where he is
well known and is an extensive property owner. He
lives in Washington Township.
William Jones was reared in Washington
Township and received his educational training in the public
schools. He worked on the home place some fifteen
years, and after his marriage moved to his present farm in
Spring Creek Township. This property consisting of 206
acres was purchased by his father for $18,564 in cash, and
soon after he erected the fine home on it at a cost of
$2,500. William Jones follows general farming
and dairying, keeping an average of twenty head of milch
cows, and is meeting with much success in his business.
The subject of this sketch was united in marriage with
Miss Maud Mellinger, a daughter of William
Mellinger of Shelby County, and they are parents of the
following children: Guy B., who assists his father on
the farm; Hazel M., who is attending High School in
Piqua; Margaret M.; Forrest F.; and Ralph
W. Politically, he is a Republican. In
religious attachment, he and his family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 663 |
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WILLIAM J. JONES, who
comes of an old and prominent family of Union Township,
Miami County, Ohio, resides about one mile southwest of West
Milton, where he has a splendid farm of 163 acres. He
was born in Union Township, a short distance below his
present place, Oct. 16, 1852, and is a son of Samuel
Jones.
SAMUEL JONES also was born in Union Township,
where his father was among the pioneer settlers, having come
from Georgia at an early date. He was always engaged
in agricultural pursuits and occupied a place of high
standing and affluence in the community. He lived for
many years on the farm now owned by the subject of this
record, and died there at the age of eighty-three' years.
He was married to Miss Anna Jay, who also was a
native of Miami County, and they became parents of ten
children.
William J. Jones attended the district schools
of Union Township, also one term in Grant County, Indiana,
and three terms in Henry County, Indiana. After his
school days were over, he remained on the home farm and has
farmed there ever since. The buildings were erected
before he came into possession of the place, but he has made
many improvements and has one of the best kept places in
this section. He has met with a high degree of success
in general farming and stock raising. Politically, he
is an ardent Republican but takes no active part in
political affairs. In religious attachment he is a member of
the Friends Church.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 802 |
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