BIOGRAPHIES
* Source #1: History of
Fayette County, Ohio
Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914
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Source #2 - History of Fayette County,
Ohio & State of Ohio
By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio -
1881
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JOHN
N. VAN DEMAN, lawyer (firm of Van Deman & Russell),
Washington; son of John L. and R. P. (Wilson) Van Deman;
born Jan. 5, 1845, at Washington; lived there, and attended
village school, until Feb., 1858; then removed with his
father to Frankfort, Ross County. They lived there two
years, and then returned to Washington, where they have
since resided. At the age of twelve he began to assist
his father (who was a merchant) in the store, and very early
acquired a taste for the mercantile business. At the age of
seventeen he attended and graduated at Duff's Commercial
College, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the following year
went to Miami University, where he remained until twenty,
then left college, in the middle of his senior year, to
accept the offer from his father of a one-third interest in
his dry-goods business; and he then began business for
himself, Mar. 1, 1865, becoming at once the buyer for the
new firm. The business was rapidly extended, and a
wholesale trade established, until their annual sales (which
had been about $25,000) were increased to $85,000.
In 1872, he began to read law in his leisure hours, not
then with the intention to practice, but for information.
He had also received a course of lectures on commercial law
while at Duff's College. As he advanced in the study
it became more and more attractive, until, in 1876, he
decided to, and did, quit the dry-goods business to enter
the profession, and was admitted by the supreme court of the
state to practice law, in about three months after leaving
his mercantile pursuits. He immediately opened an
office in Washington, and at once acquired a good business;
and has since that time been actively and successfully
engaged in the practice.
In 1873-4, he was a member of the city council.
Is a Republican in politics, a member of the Presbyterian
Church, and has been for years a worker in the
Sunday-school, and in the temperance cause. Is also an
active member of the order of Odd-fellows, in which he is
prominently and favorably known throughout the state.
He was married, May 14, 1867, to Lizzie Nash,
daughter of William and M. G. Nash of Clermont
County, who was born Sept. 12, 1847, and who died Mar. 15,
1881. She was the mother of six children, who survive
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