JOHN HICKLEN JACKSON, M. D., has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Edison, Ohio, for over ten years, and is well known throughout this section of the country. Of his life, we present the following brief sketch:
     James Jackson, the Doctor's father, was born in what is now West Virginia, in the year 1819, son of Isaac Jackson, also a native of the Old Dominion, both having Quaker birthrights. This family of Jacksons are of English and Scotch-Irish descent and are related to the distinguished "Stonewall" Jackson. James Jackson was first married, in Crawford county, Ohio, to Miss Rebecca Kirk, who died, leaving one son, George E., now a resident of Gilead township, Morrow county. For his second wife he married, in Columbiana county, this State, Mrs. Mary A. (Oliphant) Hicklen, a widow of John Hicklen and daughter of Ephraim Oliphant, a native of Virginia and a pioneer of Columbiana county, Ohio, he being a famous hunter in early days. She was born in Ohio in 1826, and by her first husband had one daughter, Sarah A., who is now the wife of F. C. Stanley, of Edison. James Jackson and his wife came to Morrow county twenty-seven years ago and settled on a farm two miles south of Mount Gilead, where they resided until 1887, at that time removing to Edison, and here they have since lived retired. They have two children, the subject of this sketch and J. Alvin, a druggist at the corner of Sixth and Main streets, Columbus Ohio. The parents are prominent and active members in the Quaker Church, and in politics he is a Prohibitionist.
     Dr. Jackson was born on his father's farm on the Tiffin road, three miles north of Bucyrus, in Crawford county, Ohio, November 15, 1857, and was ten years old when he moved to this county. He attended school at Mount Gilead and Damascus, and at Cardington, this county, began the study of medicine under the instructions of Dr. Watson. Then he spent one summer in the office of Dr. Case, of Mount Gilead, and for two years he attended the Homoepathic College in Cincinnati, and served as assistant visiting physician for the Dispensary at Cincinnati. He entered upon the practice of his profession at New Lexington, Ohio, and while there his health broke down, after which he was out of practice for a year. In 1883 he located at Edison, where he has built up a fine practice and where he has the confidence of all who know him, being highly respected both as a physician and a citizen.
     Dr. Jackson was married in 1887 to Miss Jessie Miles, daughter of James G. Miles, a merchant of Edison, and sister of J. R. Miles, one of the most prominent Odd Fellows of Ohio. Mrs. Jackson was born at Chesterville, Ohio, and is a graduate of the Mount Gilead high school. She was for four or five years a teacher in the Mount Gilead schools. The Doctor and his wife have two children: Charles Salo and Warren Milton, aged respectively six and three years.
     Fraternally Dr. Jackson is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Edison and the Mystic Circle at Cardington, and is Past Chancellor Commander of the former. Politically he is a Republican, is Central Committeeman, and has for some years been an active worker in the ranks of his party. Mrs. Jackson is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 440-441
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REV. L. W. JAMES, who resides on a farm in Lincoln township, Morrow county, Ohio, is one of the venerable citizens of the county.  He was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, December 25, 1812, and is of Dutch origin.  His grandfather, Jonathan James, was born and passed his life in Loudoun county, Virginia, dying there at the age of sixty-five years, and David James, the father of L. W., was also a native of that county.  David James married Charlotte Bradfield, a native of Maryland and a daughter of James Bradfield, of that State.  Mr. Bradfield died in Loudoun county, Virginia, at the age of sixty-eight years.  After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. James settled near his old home and resided on a farm at that place until 1835.  That year they came to Delaware county, Ohio, now Morrow county, and located on a farm where they spent the residue of their lives, he being eighty-three years of age at the time of death, and she eighty-four.  She was reared in the Quaker Church and he was a Methodist; both were devoted Christians and were people who were held in the highest esteem by all who knew them.  In politics he was in early life identified with the Whigs and later gave his support to the Republican party.  He and his wife were the parents of ten children, five sons and five daughters, namely: Vashti, wife of S. T. Cunard; Olive, wife of Isaac Nichols, died at the age of eighty-three years; Mrs. Mary B. Nichols, Galion, Ohio; Mrs. Elmira Wood, deceased; Mrs. Elizabeth Banker, Mount Gilead, Ohio; Elwood, deceased; L. W., the subject of this article; T. L.: Marion, a farmer of Lincoln township, this county; and Benton, also a farmer of Lincoln township.
     L. W. James received his first schooling in his native county.  He came with his parents to Ohio, and for a time went to one of the primitive log school-houses of Delaware county; after which he was for three years a student in the Norwalk high school, Dr. Thompson, afterward Bishop, being at that time principal of the Norwalk schools.  After completing his studies, Mr. James was ordained as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The first year of his work was as an evangelist.  Then he had charges at Sidney and in Hardin county.  After his marriage, which occurred in 1843, he had a charge at Geneva, Sunbury, and other points, and in 1844 he moved to Nashville, Ohio.  From 1845 until 1847 he was stationed at Melmore, and from 1847 to 1848 at Woodbury.  In 1848 he bought his present farm, and here he has since resided, carrying on agricultural pursuits and also giving much of his time to the work of the ministry, he having since that date been a local preacher.  In his political affiliations Mr. James has always been a Republican.
     Mr. James was married September 28, 1843, to Martha Joy, a native of Delaware county, Ohio, and a daughter of Wilder and Martha (Smith) Joy.  Her parents were early settlers of Delaware county, where they resided on a farm for many years and where they passed away; her father, born June 21, 1789, died at the age of seventy years; her mother, born September 19. 1788, died at the age of sixty-eight.  Mr. and Mrs. James have had four children, viz.: Martha, deceased; A. W., of Mount Gilead; Edward M., a prominent farmer of this county, married Ollie Smith and has two children, Lockwith and Nellie; and Olivia, wife of Christian Stooenover, has one son, Roy.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 485-486
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AARON JULIAN, a prominent farmer of Peru township, Morrow county, is a son of John and Margaret (Hedge) Julian. The mother was a native of Virginia, and a daughter of Aaron Hedge.  The grandfather of our subject, John Julian, was of Welsh descent.  John Julian, Jr., came to Ohio in 1800, locating in the woods twelve miles east of Circleville, Pickaway county, and lived for a time in a sugar camp.  He married for his first wife Allie Hedge, and their children are all now deceased.  In 1835 he removed to Peru township, Morrow county, locating on the farm now owned by our subject.  He bought 100 acres, of which he cleared thirty-five acres.  Mr. and Mrs. Julian had nine children, four now living: Aaron, our subject; Sarah, now Mrs. Baughman, of Union county, Ohio, and has two children; Samuel, of Delaware county; and Margaret, a widow, resides in Madison county.  The father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was a Democrat in his political views.
     Aaron Julian, the subject of this sketch, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, August 4, 1822, but received his education in Peru township.  He began work for himself by farming on rented land in this township for five years, after which he bought eighty acres of land here, but afterward moved to West Liberty, next returned to his old home farm, and in 1870 came to his present farm of 217 acres.  His place is under a fine state of cultivation, and he is engaged in general farming.  In political matters Mr. Julian is a life-long Democrat, and has voted fifty-one times, never having missed an election.  He has served as Justice of the Peace, as Township Trustee, and for the past forty years has held the position of School Director.
     In 1854 Mr. Julian was united in marriage with Lucinda Hancock, and they have had five children, three now living, viz.: Willis C., who married Carrie Steward, and resides in Peru township; Edgar married Dora Daston, and lives with his father, and Lillian, wife of Frank Steward, of this township.  Mrs. Julian was reared in the Quaker faith.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 402-403
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