|
|
Dover Twp. -
JAMES B. NORRIS, farmer, P. O.
New Dover, was born in Malden, Ontario, Feb. 20,
1822. He is a son of Jeremiah K. and
Margaret (Harris) Norris, who emigrated
from Gloucestershire, England, in 1812, and settled
at Halifax, N. S., where Mr. Norris rented
1,800 acres of land of Admiral Cochran, and dealt in
stock till 1819, when they removed to Harrison
County, Ohio, going from Philadelphia, Penn, in
wagons In 1821, they went back to Ontario,
crossing Lake Erie on the ice, and in 1830 they
returned to Harrison County, where Mr. Norris
died Jan. 28, 1837. Mrs. Norris came to
Delaware County in 1866, where her death occurred
July 14, 1878. Our subject was reared on a
farm and educated in the common schools. when
fifteen he left home and followed working by the
month three years at $8 and $10 per month.
Dec. 9, 1840, he came to Mill Creek Township and
purchased thirty acres of land. He lived in
different places in Union and Delaware Counties till
1864, when he located on the farm he now occupies
Nov. 30, 1842, he was married to Rebecca L.,
daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Schofield)
Pennypacker, and a native of Chester County,
Penn., where she was born Apr. 25, 1823. Of
eight children born to them, three sons are living -
Jacob P., Jeremiah K. and Benjamin F.;
Joseph, Jeremiah, Jane, Hannah L. and
Sarah A. are deceased. Jacob P.,
the eldest of the deceased, enlisted Oct. 1, 1862,
in Company D, Eighty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and was discharged on account of
disability Oct. 1, 1863. He re-enlisted Feb.
24, 1864, in Company K, Fifty-fourth Regiment Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged Aug., 1865.
Mr. Norris, our subject, was the first man
drafted in Union County, and he furnished a
substitute. He owns a farm of 152 acres, and
is engaged in farming and raising stock.
Mr. and Mrs. Norris are born members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source: History Union County, Ohio -
Publ. Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 375 |
