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Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
1883

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CHARLES E. M. JENNINGS was born March 9, 1837, at Catawissa, Columbia Co., Pa., and was brought by his parents the same year to Ohio.  They located in Fairfield County, where he lived with them on a farm till the fifteenth year of his age.  In 1852 he went into the office of the Lancaster Gazette to learn the trade of a printer.  In 1857 he went to Logan, and assumed the editorial control of the Hocking Valley Republican. During the war of the Rebellion he was Chief Clerk to the Provost Marshal General of Ohio, serving with Colonel Edward A. Parrott of the First Ohio Infantry and Colonel Joseph H. Potter of the regular army.  For some time after the war he was the Columbus correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, relinquishing the position in 1868, when he purchased the Athens Messenger, of which he has since been editor and proprietor.  The Messenger is the old established Republican paper of the county and now, under the editorialship of Mr. Jennings, continues to be one of the most influential papers of Southeastern, Ohio.  He is an able and easy writer, fearless of all contemporaries, and dauntless in advocating the principles of truth and justice.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883
- Page 354

  ROBERT MALCOLM JENNINGS was born in Cairo, Ill., Oct. 17, 1861.  His father, Robert M. Jennings, was a son of Junia Jennings, of Marietta and was well known along the Ohio River, he having been prominent in steamboat circles for many years.  The mother of the subject of this sketch was a grand-daughter of Elijah Hayward, who held the office of Commissioner of the Land Office during Jackson's administration, and who subsequently held various offices in Ohio.  Mr. Jennings received a grammar-school education and learned the printer's trade at the Messenger office at Athens Herald, he became a member of the company publishing that paper and has since connected with it as Associate Editor.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883
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  D. H. JONES, son of H. B. and Susan Jones, was born July 30, 1844, the second of a family of eight children, also one of four of the family that served their time out during the war.  He enlisted June 9, 1861, in the war of the Rebellion, in Company C, Third Ohio Infantry, was mustered in the service at Camp Denison, then sent to Virginia under. the command of McClellan; was at the battle of Rich Mountain and through the campaign of Virginia until December, 1861, then transferred to the Western army under General Mitchell’s command.  In May, 1862, he had his jaw broken in a skirmish near Governor Clay’s farm in Alabama.  He was also in a skirmish in 1862 at Bridgeport; in the battle of Perryville in 1862, receiving a slight wound, and in the battle of Stone River was wounded in the right side, from the effect of which he has never recovered.  He, with the rest of the regiment, was detailed mounted infantry in Streight’s raid through Georgia; during the time was in some severe skirmishes; was taken prisoner with the rest of the command and taken to Belle Isle, paroled and returned to Camp Chase, Ohio; from there engaged in the Morgan raid through Ohio, then returned to the army, but did only guard duty on account of commanding officers being prisoners.  He was discharged June 20, 1864, and returned home.  Feb. 18, 1865, he married Mary St. Clair, who died leaving one son, John H.  Mar. 25, 1868, he married Lurena Rogers, daughter of John Rogers, a soldier in the war of 1812.  They have three children —Geneva B., William C., and Myrtle A.  Mr. Jones owns one of the best farms in the township.  He has 100 acres with a two-story residence built in 1882, and a good barn and farm buildings.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 721
  EVAN J. JONES, of the law firm of Brosvenor & Jones, Athens, was born near Centerville, Gallia Co., Ohio, Oct. 3, 1849.  His mother dying when he was about eight years old, he remained in his father's family until his sixteenth year, when he went to Ewington and attended the Ewington Academy one year, he defraying the expenses by teaching district school at Portland and Madison Furnace, Jackson Co., Ohio.  In the spring of 1869 he went to Lebanon, Ohio, and attended the National Normal School for four months, when he came to Athens and entered the Ohio University and graduated in the class of 1873, in the mean time having in 1872 and 1873 taught at Burlington, Ohio.  Immediately after his graduation he accepted the Principalship of the grammar School at Norwalk, Ohio, where he taught one year, at the same time privately studying law.  In December, 1874, he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court, at Columbus, and in August, 1875, became associated with Hon. Charles Townsend, forming the law firm of Townsend & Jones, at Athens.  In 1878 he became associated with Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor and formed the present law firm of Grosvenor & Jones.  In 1878 he was elected City Solicitor of Athens, and by subsequent election held the position for four years.  In the fall of 1881 he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the School Board of Athens and was elected to the same position in 1882.  Dec. 17, 1879, he married Miss Lucy Johnson, of Pennsylvania.  They have one child - Helen.  Mr. Jones is a member of Sereno Lodge No. 479, I. O. O. F., of Athens, and of the Delta Tau Delta Society, a fraternity of Ohio University.  He is a member of the Baptist church at Norwalk, Ohio.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883
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  GEORGE JONES was born in Belmont County, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1821.  When ten years old he went to Morgan County, and in 1846 came to Athens County, where he has since resided.  He has eighty-eight acres of good land on section 33, Lee Township.  He was married June, 1846, to Hannah Jackson, a native of Delaware County, Ohio, born in 1814.  They have six children—James H., Jesse (now in Washington Territory), George W., Eliza J., Sarah and LibbieMr. and Mrs. Jones and three of their children are members of the Christian church.
Source:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 617

H. C. Jones
HOMER C. JONES, attorney at law, McArthur, was born Oct. 17,1834, a son of David and Maria (Bothwell) Jones.  His father was the son of Moses Jones, and was born in Ross County, Ohio, May 10, 1804.  He came to McArthur in 1823.  In 1832 he bought eighty acres near what is now Vinton Station.  He added to his first purchase until in 1855 he had 500 acres.  He was extensively engaged in stockraising, and was one of the first in the county to take an interest in improved stock.  In 1855 he sold his farm and purchased the Bothwell homestead.  He at one time owned one-fourth of the Cincinnati (now Richland) Furnace, and superintended the building of it.  He and Dr. A. Wolf were afterward in partnership in the raising of fine sheep, and were the first men to bring Vermont merino sheep to Vinton County.  David Jones was at one time quite a local politician, and in 1836-'37 represented Athens and Meigs counties in the State Legislature.  He died in 1866, and his wife died the following year, leaving a family of seven children— Charlotte, now Mrs. J. W. Rannells; Homer C.; James K., a Captain in the Ninetieth Ohio Infantry, now living in Missouri; Eliza A., now Mrs. J. A. Felton; Mordecai B., of Missouri; Cidna M., now Mrs. Elijah Rockhold, of Bainbridge; and David Warren, an attorney of Gallipolis.  Homer C. Jones was educated in the Ohio University at Athens.  In 1858 he was elected County Surveyor of Vinton County, and served till 1860.  While holding that office he read law with the late Judge J. P. Plyley.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Eighteenth Ohio Infantry, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant.  While in camp at Athens he was admitted to the bar by the District Court of Athens County.  In the spring of 1862 he was detailed for duty in the signal corps, and having attended camp of instruction was assigned to duty on the staff of Brigadier-General T. J. Wood, Sixth Division, Army of Ohio, and with this command was at Shiloh.  In September, 1862, Colonel Stanley had him return to the regiment to serve as Adjutant, but a few weeks later General Negley selected him as Aid-de-Camp.  He retained this position till after the reorganization of the army under General Rosecrans, when he was assigned to duty on the field-staff of General George H. Thomas.  He acted as Aid-de-Camp to General Thomas at the battle of Stone River, and was then assigned to duty as Inspector General of the Fourteenth Army Corps, during the illness of Colonel Yon SchraderGeneral Thomas presented him with the Brigadier-General shoulder straps worn by him at Mill Springs, Shiloh and Stone River, which he now values very highly as a souvenir of General Thomas and the late war.  He remained in the signal service on the staff of General John M. Palmer, who succeeded General Thomas, until the reorganization of his regiment as veterans in 1863, when, at the earnest solicitation of Colonel Stanley and the men of his company, he returned to his regiment and took command of the company.  He was mustered out Nov, 9, 1864. On returning home he opened an office and has since been engaged in the practice of law.  Captain Jones has always taken an interest in political matters.  He was an alternate delegate to the National Convention at Philadelphia in 1872 that nominated General Grant to the Presidency, and was an Elector for the Eleventh District on the Republican ticket that year.  In 1876 he was a delegate to the National Convention at Cincinnati that nominated President Hayes.  In 1877 he was elected to represent the district composed of Meigs, Lawrence, Gallia and Vinton counties in the State Senate.  His majority was only ten, and his seat was contested by Mr. Onderdonk upon the ground that he had received more colored votes than his majority, and the Senate being largely Democratic, Mr. Onderdonk won the day.  In 1879 he was elected to the Senate by over 1,900 majority.  He is now a member of the Republican State Central Committee.  Captain Jones was married in 1861 to Lou F. Hawk, daughter of John S. Hawk, of McArthur.  They have five sons.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1248
  J. H. JONES, farmer, second son of David and Sarah (Dickson) Jones, was born in Ward Township, Hocking Co., Ohio, Apr. 1, 1840.  In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Nelsonville, Ohio, as a private for three months, and was discharged at Athens, Ohio, in August, 1861.  He then returned home and resumed farming until the spring of 1864, when he was called out 100 days in the Ohio National Guards.  Served four months and was discharged at Camp Chase in the fall of 1864.  His regiment was on duty at Washington, D. C.,  when Early invaded Maryland.  When discharged he returned home and resumed farming.  In March, 1868, he purchased the farm where he now resides.  He has served as Township Trustee for six years.  Oct. 7, 1869, he married Nancy M., daughter of David and Mary (Morrow) Spencer, of Perry County, Ohio.  They have five children —Edgar C., Carlos P., Oscar D., Orpha M. and Hannah E.  Mr. and Mrs. Jones are members of the Disciple church.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 776
  J. W. JONES, farmer and dealer in real estate, oldest son of David and Sarah (Dixon) Jones, was born in York Township, Athens County, Mar. 8, 1836, where he lived with his parents until ten years of age.  Dec. 23, 1846, his father was drowned in Hocking River, near Nelsonville.  His mother then removed to Homer Township, Morgan County, where he lived with her one year.  He then lived with Jonathan Nesmith in Dover Township until fourteen years of age, when his mother removed to York Township and he lived with her and attended school during the winter.  At the age of fifteen years he began hauling coal in Nelsonville, and worked during the summer and went to school during the winter for several years.  In 1855 he was apprenticed to William Weller, of Nelsonville, to learn the boot and shoe trade and worked six months.  The following year he worked at boot and shoe making for S. H. Tinker, of Nelsonville.  He then had charge of a canal boat three months and dealt in stock.  He then rented a farm until 1861.  Sept. 1, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Sixty-third Regiment Ohio Infantry, at Trimble, Ohio, as a private for three years; was in the battles of New Madrid, Island No. 10, Fort Pillow, Farmington, first and second battles at Corinth, and was one of a number who hauled two thirty-two pound Parrot guns by hand from New Madrid to Tiptonville, eighteen miles; also at Iuka and with his regiment to Eastport, Tenn., where he was detailed as Hospital Steward and served as such until discharged.  He was discharged at Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1864.  In February, 1865, he purchased a farm in Trimble Township and farmed and worked at the boot and shoe trade for two years.  He then added more lands and farmed in partnership with his brother James until 1872 when he purchased his brother’s interest.  He sold his farm February, 1873. He was then employed by Thomas Ewing buying lands and prospecting until 1879.  August, 1879, he purchased the Allen farm and has been engaged in farming arid dealing in real estate and stock to the present time.  He filled the office of Township Clerk, 1855 and 1856; Trustee, 1868, and Special Trustee nine years; was Land Appraiser in 1880, and is at present Justice of Peace.  He is a Master Mason, member of Lodge No. 470, A. F. & A. M., Bishopville, Morgan County.  Dec. 8, 1864, he married Martha E., daughter of George S. and Sarah (Smith) Anderson, of Hocking County.  They had seven children —Sarah L., Ella L., James S., Joseph E., Elmer L., Alice B. and Silas H.  His wife died Jan. 10, 1881, aged forty-two years.  July 12, 1881, he married Laura, daughter of Jacob L. and Rebecca (Miller) Wyatt, of Trimble Township.  They have one child— Frederick L.  His wife is a member of the Disciple
church.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 777
  ROBERT WILMETH JONES was born in Belmont County, O., June 17, 1826.  On his father’s side he was of Welsh extraction, and on the maternal side a lineal descendant of that brave sailor, Rear-Admiral Carter, who, with Admiral Russell, commanded the English and Dutch fleets in the battle of La Hogue, and who, being mortally wounded in the engagement, gave his last command in the memorable -words, “Fight the ship while she can swim."  Colonel Jones was the third child of Wilmeth Jones and Sarah, his wife, nee Carter, and one of seven children.  At the age of fourteen years he began to learn the mysteries of “the art preservative of all arts,” serving seven years as apprentice and foreman with John Irons, of Uniontown, Pa., in the office of the Genius of Liberty, which paper he edited for about two years of that time.  On the 2d of March, 1847, he was united in marriage with Anna M. Sturgis, of Uniontown, who survives him after a wedded life of thirty-four years.  To them were born six children, two of whom only are now living.
     In 1847 Colonel Jones began the publication of the Cumberland Presbyterian, the organ of the church whose name it bore, at Uniontown, and continued it at Brownsville and afterward at Waynesburg, Pa., with a short interval, till 1865.  He began the publication of the Messenger, a political paper, at the latter place in 1861, but in 1865 abandoned all newspaper work for more active business pursuits, which he continued at Philadelphia and other points with varying success till he came to Athens, and assumed editorial and business control of the Journal.  He took an active part for many years in all business and political questions, often occupying responsible positions in the counsels of his party, and at one time holding a military commission as aid to Governor Pollock, of Pennsylvania.  He was of a social and genial disposition, with a host of friends, and best beloved by those who knew him best.  As a journalist he was a pleasing writer, wielding a facile and often trenchant pen; clear, sparkling and direct in style; accurate in facts and convincing in deductions and argument.  To all these qualities be united a high sense of justice, great industry and line
business capacity.  He amassed a handsome fortune, but financial losses came to him with railway and other investments.  During the days of his greatest prosperity his friends shared in all his good fortune.  In the season of adversity he bore with philosophical equanimity his reverses, and took up anew all the labors of life, with a serene determination to extract the largest measure of comfort for self and family from his surroundings; and with temper unsoured and disposition as genial and sunshiny as ever, he worked on till death, with no unkind hand, without lingering or great conscious suffering, and in the midst of his activity and labors, called him to rest.
     The Journal has been continued by his daughter, Jennie Jones, who undertook to carry out all the plans of her father.  She was born at Brownsville, Pa., and was educated at Philadelphia, graduating from the High School there in the spring of 1872.  When her father began his connection with the Journal, she went into the office as his bookkeeper and took charge of the mailing department, holding that connection until his death, when she became the sole editor and publisher, and has so continued to the present time.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 257
  CONRAD JOSTEN, of the firm of Laird, Josten & Co., manufacturers of wagons and carriages, and dealers in agricultural implements at Athens, was born in Wheeling, Va., July 1, 1850.  When eight years of age he came to Athens County with his parents, MAtthias and Elizabeth (Bricker) Josten, settling in Lodi Township, where he lived with them until he was sixteen years old, when he went to Gallipolis and learned the blacksmith trade with Louis Munzt, being with him four years.  He then worked at blacksmithing at various places until 1878, when he became associated with Armstrong Laird at Athens, the firm being Laird & Josten and engaged in manufacturing carriages and general repairing.  In 1882 his father became associated with them, changing the firm to Laird, Josten & Co.  In 1882 he was elected a member of the Council of Athens.  May 3, 1880, he married Miss Maggie Shay, of Athens.  They have one child - James M.  Mr. Josten is a member of St. Paul's Catholic Church at Athens.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883
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MATHIAS JOSTEN, of the firm of Laird & Josten & Co., was born in Prussia, Oct. 1, 1820.  At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to learn the trade of calico printer at Mettlock.  He afterward worked in print factories in Austria, Bavaria and Prussia until 1846, excepting two years he served in the Prussian army.  In 1846 he came to America and settled in Pottsville, Pa., where he was variously employed until 1849, when he removed to Wheeling, W. Va.; thence to Athens County, Ohio, in 1857, where he settled on a farm in Lodi Township, and pursued farming for twenty-five years.  In 1882 he sold his farm and came to Athens and became associated with A. Laird, and his son, Conrad Josten in manufacturing wagons and carriages and dealing in farming implements.  Feb. 17, 1848, he married Elizabeth Bricker, of Armstrong, Pa.   They have four children - Conrad, Peter, Mary and Lizzie.  Mr. and Mrs. Josten are members of St. Paul's Catholic Church of Athens.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883
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  FREDERICK LEWIS JUNOD was born in Canaan Township, Athens Co., Ohio, Jan. 30, 1832.  When he was an infant his parents, Frederick Lewis and Ursula (Stalder) Junod, removed to Ames Township, where he was reared.  His father died June, 1852, and he remained on the homestead farm with his mother till 1867, when he bought the farm in Dover Township, where he now resides.  Mr. Junod was Trustee and Justice of the Peace in Ames Township several years.  He has been a member of the Board of Education in Ames and Dover townships the most of the time since 1854, and has also been a Trustee in Dover Township.  In 1880 he was elected one of the Directors of the Athens County Infirmary.  Nov. 30, 1852, he married Lydia Ann Stephenson.  They have ten children, seven sons and three daughters.  Mr. and Mrs. Junod are members of the Sugar Creek Methodist Episcopal Church.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883
- Page 357
  HERBERT AUGUSTUS JUNOD, son of Frederick L. and Lydia (Stephenson) Junod, was born in Ames Township, Athens Co., Ohio, Sept. 17, 1854.  When he was thirteen years old his parents removed to Dover Township.  He was educated in the district schools of the county, and at the Ohio University, Athens, after which he taught school two years.  He then was a salesman for the Singer Manufacturing Company a year, and then was employed by F. M. Koons, lumber dealer, two years.  In 1883 he accepted the situation as salesman for O. D. Jackson, proprietor of the coal mines at Jacksonville, Athens County.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Sugar Creek, and of Sereno Lodge, No. 479, I. O. O. F., Athens.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883
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