JUNE FAMILY.  The ancestors from whom are descended the June families in the United States were two brothers by the name of Junett, Huguenot Frenchmen, one of whom settled on the Hudson and the other on the Connecticut river.  The June families residing in Sandusky county, Ohio, are descended from the one who settled on the Hudson, Zebbard June by name, and who, becoming disgusted with the religion of France, dropped the last two letters of his name, leaving it June.  His home was at Peekskill, N. Y.  He served in the Revolutionary war under Gen. La Fayette, and on account of disabilities incurred in the service was granted pecuniary aid from the U. S. Government.  His occupation was that of a farmer in Orange County, N. Y.  He had a family of five children: Charity, Stephen, Peter, Cociah and David.  Of these -
     Charity June married Adam Sales, and lived in Ithaca, Tompkins Co., N. y., in which county he died.  They had five sons and one daughter.  After Mr. Sales' death Mrs. Sales moved to Unadilla, Mich., where she passed away.  Their eldest son, Benjamin, died at the same place, leaving one daughter.
     Stephen June married a Miss Pew, of New York City, by whom he had one son, James Madison June.  Stephen June was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was wounded at the battle of Lundy's Lane by a bullet which struck him at one side of the nose and passed out at the back of his neck, on account of which he was considered mortally wounded.  He was being carried off the field by an Indian to be burned on a pile of dead bodies, when his struggles to free himself excited the sympathies of a British officer, James Jimmerson who shot the Indian, and released Mr. June, but was himself arrested for firing his gun during a truce, when both armies were caring for their dead and wounded by torch light.  Mr. June recovered from his wound, and lived seventeen years after the battle, but never met or knew his benefactor.  The Indian who was shot was of the tribe of Captain Brant, after whom the then village of Brantford, Canada, was named.  The British officer afterward received a pension from the British Government, and was sent to take a position as commissary, at Fort Malden, Canada.  It was while he was at this place that Mr. David June, of Fremont, Ohio, met him, and first learned that he was the man who shot the Indian.  A warm friendship at once sprang up between them, which continued until the death of the officer, in 1874.
     Peter June, born in 1796, for a number of years followed the sea, and later served as a pilot in New York harbor.  He was a cavalryman under Gen. Brown in the war of 1812, during which he was wounded by a saber out at the hands of a member of the Forty-second Regiment, Scotch Highlanders, who were all slaughtered the same day.  Peter June was married, at Caldwell's Landing, on the Hudson river, to a lady who was born in 1800, and they lived for a time at New York City.  Being a sea-faring man he was absent from his family much of his time, and his wife having prevailed upon him to abandon the sea, he decided to try the western lakes.  Moving westward, they lived for several years near Cayuga Lake, N. Y., in 1833 removing to Buffalo, where he shipped as mate on the schooner "Amaranth," and came with his family, on the first day of June, to Sandusky City (Then called Portland) Ohio.  Here the family lived for upward of seventeen years.  Mr. June sailed on the lakes until the death of his wife, in 1835, after which he confined himself to ship-rigging in the vicinity of his home.  In 1840 he again married.  He died in 1851, at the age of fifty-six.  His remains and those of his first wife have been removed to Oakwood cemetery, Fremont, Ohio.  The children of Peter June by his first marriage were:  Daniel L., born in 1818; Martha, born in 1820; George, born Dec. 26, 1822; David, born May 11, 1824, sketch of whom follows; two who died in childhood; Sales A., born Aug. 2, 1828; and Marietta, born in January, 1830.  The sons at different times all became residents of Fremont, Ohio.
     Cociah June, another member of the family of Zebbard June, married and had a family.
     David June, youngest son of Zebbard June, after whom David June, of Fremont, Ohio, was named, was a soldier in the war of 1812, having entered the service at the age of fifteen, at the request of his father, and serving as dispatch boy.  He grew to manhood in the vicinity of Peekskill, N. Y., and married Miss Miami Harrington at Ithaca, New York.

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 712

DAVID JUNE, machinist and engine builder of Fremont, Ohio, was born May 11, 1824, at Ithaca, N. Y., son of Peter June, who was a sailor and ship-rigger.
     In 1833 our subject came with his father's family to Portland, now Sandusky, Ohio, where he attended school a short time, at intervals when he could be spared from work.  He remained with his father until about fourteen years of age, when he entered a machine shop to learn the machinist trade.  In the fall of 1838 he was cabin boy on the old steamer "Jack Downing," on the Sandusky river, which was his first experience at sailing.  In 1839 he was cabin boy on the steamer "St. Clair" until she was laid up by the Combination Line, after which he went on the steamer "Sandusky."  IN 1840 he assisted his father (who was a contractor on the Sandusky & Mansfield railroad) by driving a team at plow and scraper, in the construction of the road-bed from Sandusky to Monroeville.  In the winter of 1840-41, at Sandusky, he attended for a short time a school taught by Mr. Hickox, an Episcopal clergyman.  In May, 1841, he began a seven-years' apprenticeship to learn the trade of mechanical engineering with a firm in Sandusky, and during this time he also worked for his brother-in-law, Charles Waterous, on the old Ohio railroad, which was to pass through Sandusky County.  This firm was doing the general repairs through the counties of Erie and Sandusky.  Mr. June's work was to look after pile-drivers and saw-mills.  A dissolution of partnership of the firm to which he had been bound released him from his apprenticeship, and in April, 1842, he went to Cleveland and found employment in the Cuyahoga Iron Works.  Here he remained about ten years, during that time filling the position of engineer on steamers of the Buffalo and Chicago Line during the summer and Chicago Line during the summer seasons, and working in the shops during the winter seasons.  During a part of 1843 he was second engineer on the steamer "St. Clair" and the rest of the year on the "Commerce."  In the winter and spring of 1844 he assisted in building the engine of the steamer "Empire," and in August sailed on that steamer as second engineer, remaining on that vessel until June, 1847, when he went on the "Boston."  In the summer of 1847 he took charge of the steamer "Detroit," until she was sent to Chicago.  In the following winter he put up the engine of the "Monticello," at Fairport, Ohio.  In the spring of 1848 he put in an engine for the "Ohio," and fixed engines for the "Republic" in the fall.  He was on the "Republic" until July, 1849, when he was employed to fit out the steamer "Globe," at Cleveland, by the American and Liverpool Insurance Company, who were under contract to furnish the railroad iron from England for the C. C. & C. railroad, by Jan. 1, 1850.  Their vessels from Liverpool could not pass up the Welland canal, and the iron was unloaded on the banks.  Mr. June was employed to deliver the iron for the company at Cleveland, and it took him from July until December 22 to do it.  He then returned to the Cuyahoga shops to work for the Lake Superior Line of steamers, in which employ he remained for a period of about eight years.  This line extended from Cleveland to Sault Ste. Marie.  In 1851 they built the steamer "Northerner," into which Mr. June put an engine and machinery; this was the first steamboat built for the Lake Superior trade.  In 1853 they built the steamer "North Star," which cost $128,000.  Having by industry and economy laid by some money, Mr. June in 1853 came to Fremont to start in business.  He and a Mr. Curtis first bought out the plow shop of F. I. Norton and began to fix it up for the building and repair of engines.  Six months later Mr. Curtis sold out to Daniel L. June, and the June brothers continued together under the firm name of June & June until 1856, when Lyman Gilpin bought out D. L. June.  D. June and L. Gilpin remained together as partners until November, 1859, at which time D. June became sole proprietor.  He again took Mr. Curtis into partnership, but seven years later that gentleman retired, and three years after that a partnership was formed, consisting of David June, Robert Brayton, and O. S. French under the firm name of D. June & Co.
     The completion of the Toledo, Norwalk & Cleveland railroad in 1853 enabled Mr. June to bring engines from Cleveland for repair, and returned them for the Lake Superior Company cheaper than the work could be done at Cleveland, and he held their trade.  His shops also received many orders for work from the surrounding country.  In the winter of 1855 he rebuilt the "Manhattan," whose engines were brought here by rail, and in the winter of 1857 he rebuilt the "North Star" at Fremont.  During these years Mr. June was away occasionally on Lake Superior to overhaul steamers and make repairs.  In 1858, at the urgent solicitation of the Lake Superior Transportation Company, he left his business at Fremont, Ohio, in care of a partner lately taken in, and went to Cleveland to take charge of all the company's boats and keep them in running order.  HE remained there until 1860, when he returned to Fremont, bought out his partner, and assumed entire control of the business.  He had quit the lakes in 1858, and now remained in Fremont permanently, in 1861 commencing the erection of new works, which were completed in 1877.  After several changes of partners he associated himself with Robert Brayton, an old and skillful machinist with whom he had worked in Cleveland, and who remained nine years and did much to make their ventures successful.  Many valuable improvements in the building of engines were made by this enterprising firm.  They were the inventors of a self-acting spark arrester in 1875, which has come into general use.  The engines built by the firm have a high reputation, and are being shipped all over the country.  The firm also has two branch concerns, one at Waco, Texas, which does a business of about $150,000 a year, and one at Council Bluffs, Iowa, which does an annual business of about $25,000.  They had another at Austin, Texas, which they recently sold to A. R. Gossard.  These concerns are all connected with and stocked by the shops at Fremont, Ohio, in which a business of about $200,000 a year is done.  In 1869 Mr. June took O. S. French as a partner, and the firm name became D. June & Co., by which it has been known ever since.  In 1886 this firm divided up a one third interest with S. A. June & Son, Martin Holderman and A. M. June.  In 1890 S. A. June and Peter June his son, surrendered their stock to D. June & Co, since which time the firm has consisted of D. June, O. S. French, M. Holderman and A. M. June.
     On Nov. 28, 1844, David June married, at Painesville, Ohio, Miss Caroline A. Owen, a daughter of Joseph and Anna (Rantsford) Owen, born in Ontario County, N. Y., in February, 1823.  They had two children: Clarissa A., who died in childhood; and Carrie M., born June 12, 1857, who was married Sept. 10, 1884, at Fremont, Ohio, to Martin Holderman who is now a partner in the firm of D. June & Co., and its worthy secretary.  Mr. Holderman was born in Baden, Germany, Aug. 10, 1852, a son of Frederick and Barbara (Adler) Holderman, who came to America in 1856.  Frederick Holderman was a baker by trade, and had preceded his family to this country two years, coming in 1854.  He died at Fremont, Ohio, in 1860, and his wife in 1865.  Three of their sons, William, George and Frederick, Jr., were veteran soldiers  of the Civil war, 1861 to 1865.  The children of Frederick Holderman, Sr., born in Germany, were: Frederick, Jr., born in 1840; George, born Feb. 22, 1842; William born Feb. 22, 1844; Amelia who died in childhood; and Martin, born Aug. 10, 1852.  The children of Martin and Carrie Holderman are: June Frederick born Dec. 5, 1885; and Clara Marie born Dec. 12, 1886.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 713

GEORGE JUNE, retired farmer and horse dealer, Fremont, Sandusky county, was born in the town of Dryden, Tompkins Co., N. Y., Dec. 26, 1822, son of Peter June.  He came with his father's family, in 1833, to Sandusky city, where he attended school a few terms, as he could be spared from work.
     At the age of fifteen George June left home to work on his own account going with his brother Daniel to serve as teamster, in the construction of mason work in Maumee (Lucas county) and vicinity, and helped build the first poor house in Lucas county.  In 1838 he went south to Springfield, Cincinnati and other cities in quest of work.  He drove a stage for the Ohio Stage Company, on the National road, about eleven years and also drove stage for some time at Bellefontaine, his wages being usually about $14 per month and board.  After this he went to Cincinnati, and engaged first as a common hand to assist a stock company in shipping live stock down the Mississippi river; but his natural tact and his long experience in handling horses soon caused him to be put in charge of large consignments of horses on vessels, as foreman.  For about ten years he went south in the fall and returned in the spring.  Having accumulated some money, he invested it in a large farm in Sandusky county, whereon he afterward settled.  During the Civil war Mr. June furnished cavalry horses for the Ohio troops, at the rate of nearly 2,000 per year.  He shipped the first carload of horses that ever was shipped form Fremont to Boston, and has shipped many a carload since.  By his long and active out-door life, and his temperate habits, he has retained robust health in a green old age.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 138

SALES A. JUNE was born in Tompkins county, N. Y., Aug. 2, 1829, son of Peter June. In 1833 he came with his father's family to Ohio, locating in Sandusky city, where he remained until 1849, when, at the age of twenty years, he went to Cleveland to learn the trade of machinist.
     During the period from 1849 to 1856 Mr. June alternated between sailing on the lakes as an engineer in the summer time, and working in the Cuyahoga shops in the winter time.  About the year 1857 he went to Brantford, Canada, where he became connected with sawmilling, and took a contract for furnishing lumber for a branch of the Grand Trunk railroad.  He had a partner in the business, and the enterprise was successful, they furnishing lumber for the western end of the Buffalo & Lake Erie, then known as the Buffalo & Lake Huron Branch, Grand Trunk railroad.  Mr. June next took a contract to build a plank road into the oil regions of Canada, at Ennisskillen, which he completed just before the Civil war broke out in the United States.  He then returned to Cleveland, Ohio.  In 1862 he went to Buffalo and assisted in building and finishing out the United States steamer "Commodore Perry," and became engaged as an engineer on the vessel, in the employ of the United States Government, continuing thus until the latter part of 1865.  After this he superintended the building of a propellor for the Fremont Steam Navigation Company, and ran her on the lakes until about 1867, at which time he started a boiler works in Fremont, Ohio.  After operating these works about eight years he sold out to D. June & Co., remaining in the employ of said company, and being a partner in the same until 1890.  In the year 1891 he received an appointment from the United States Lighthouse Board at Washington, D. C., to go to Cleveland, Ohio, and superintend the building of engines and boilers of two lighthouse boats, the "Columbia" and the "Lilac;" the latter boat is now on the coast of Maine, and the former on the coast of Maine, and the former on the coast of Oregon.  In the fall of 1892 Mr. June returned to Fremont and engaged in the manufacture of the boiler-scale solvent, which has been introduced into all the leading boiler shops of Ohio, and is presumed to be a great success.
     Sales A. June was married to Miss Jane J. Campbell, who was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, Dec. 29, 1727, daughter of John N. and Jane (Quiggin) Campbell, and three children were born to them of whom (1) Adelaide J., born May 10, 1857, was married in 1880 to William Waugh, a Scotchman, who is a wholesale fur dealer at Montreal, P. Q.; their children are Florence, Oliver S., Marion and William.
     (2) Peter J. June, born Sep. 6, 1858, grew to manhood and received his education in Fremont, where he learned the trade of mechanical engineer in the shops of D. June & Co., subsequently going to Cleveland, where he worked in the Cuyahoga shops and for the Globe Shipbuilding Co. several years.  After this he followed steamboating, as engineer, on the lakes from 1878 until 1892, during the summer seasons, for several lines, running the "Conestoga," "Gordon Campbell," and "Lehigh," of the Anchor Line; the "Wocoken," "Egyptian" and "Cormorant," of the Winslow Fleet; the "Northern Light," of the Northern Steamship Co., and the "City of Toledo" of Toledo & Island Steam Navigation Co.  In the season of 1890 he had charge of the McKinnon Iron Works at Ashtabula, Ohio.  He is now a partner in the Fremont Boiler-Scale Solvent Co., Fremont, Ohio.  Mr. June was married at Tyler, Texas, to Miss Jennie daughter of J. C. and Agnes (Boyd) Jones, who were from Beaver county, Penn., and of Welsh descent.  They have one child, Robert F., born Oct. 24, 1887.
     (3) Elmer Ellsworth, youngest in the family of Sales A. June, was born in 1861, and died when nine months old.
    In politics Sales A. June and his son are Republicans.  They are members of the Masonic Fraternity, the former having attained the seventh and the latter the third degree.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 137