OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS - Seneca Co., Ohio

Source:
History of Seneca County, Ohio
containing a History of the County, It's Townships, Towns,
Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, etc.;
Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;
Biographies; History of the Northwest Territory;
History of Ohio; Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.
- Illustrated -
Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co.
1886.

Clinton Twp. & Tiffin City -
HENRY JACOBS, proprietor of the "Jacobs Neck-yoke Manufactory," was born in Karlskrohna, Sweden, Mar. 28, 1838, son of Hokenson and Mary Jacobson (the name "Jacobs" being the English abbreviation). In 1854 the parents came to this country and located at Rock Island, Ill., where they were carried off by the cholera; they left three sons and two daughters: John, a mechanic, with the firm; Henry, the subject of this sketch; Mary, now Mrs. Nelson, of Waco, Tex.; Anna, wife of Owen Jones, of Marshall, Kas.; and Oliver, whose whereabouts is unknown. Henry Jacobs was reared in Knox County, Ill. Being dependent, he set about obtaining a good education, and after a while taught school. He attended two years at Knox College in Galesburg, and afterward entered Union Park Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1868. He was then for five years actively identified with mission work in connection with the Congregational Church; meanwhile he had given considerable attention to mechanical work, and in 1871 he engaged in manufacturing near Elgin, Ill. In 1877 he moved to Sandusky, Ohio, and in 1883 came to Tiffin, Ohio, where he built his present factory. Mr. Jacobs married, in 1870, in Oneida, Knox County. Ill., Cordelia, daughter of Michael Metcalf, Esq., of English descent, who came from New York State to Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs have two sons and two daughters: Alva, Henry, Mary and Helen. There being no congregation of their faith in Tiffin, our subject and wife attend St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.
SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio containing a History of the County, Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. - Page 789

Big Spring Twp. -
WILLIAM JOHNSON, farmer, P. O. Adrian, was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 10, 1814, a son of Archibald and Catharine Johnson, also natives of Pennsylvania, where they were married and first settled. They moved to Medina County, Ohio, and thence to this county in 1820, where they resided until death. Archibald Johnson was killed by lightning in 1845; his widow died September 1, 1879. Our subject was married, Feb. 17, 1845, to Nancy Cline, born in Lancaster County, Penn., May 8, 1827, daughter of George and Mary Cline, natives of Maryland, who were married in Lancaster County, first settling there; they came to this county about 1836, and here remained the residue of their lives. Mrs.. Cline died in 1856, and Mr. Cline in 1861. Our subject and wife are parents of nine children, of whom eight are now living: Rebecca, Isaac, William J., George A., Mary, Jennie, Henry E. and Andrew. Mr. Johnson who has always been a farmer, owns 113 acres of land mostly improved, also town property. He is one of the old settlers of this county, and has lived an honest, straightforward life.
SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio containing a History of the County, Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. - Page 722

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