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JOHN
PAUL. The career of John Paul is closely
connected with the early history of Greene county.
Paul was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, November 12,
1758, a son of Michael and Ann (Parker) Paul.
The family removed to Virginia when John was
only a boy and later established themselves in Kentucky.
In 1778, John Paul was with Gen. George Rogers
Clark in the latter's expedition against the British
posts in Illinois and Indiana. In 1794 Paul
married Sarah Thomberry Grover, a sister of Josiah
Grover, at Danville, Kentucky, and sometime in the
winter of 1799 or the spring of 1800, he brought his family
to this region and located on United States land on the
present site of Trebeins Station, three miles northwest of
the Little Miami river. On this river he established
the first water-power grist-mill and saw-mill in the
neighborhood. When the first constitutional convention
of the state was called in 1802, John Paul was
chosen as one of the delegates for what then was Hamilton
county. When the state government was established he
was elected a member of the Senate in the first General
Assembly of the state which met at Chillicothe, on March 1,
1803. After Green county was erected John Paul
was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas. He
served in this capacity, as well as auditor and recorder,
until he left the county in 1809. When the question of
the establishment of the county seat of Greene county was
uppermost Paul was aware that the commissioners were
about to decide upon a site at the forks of Shawnee run and
he journeyed to Cincinnati, and bought of the new townsite
of Xenia. He left Green county in 1809, going to
Indiana Territory and settling with his family on what
became the site of Madison, thus becoming an important
factor in the establishment of that city. He was the
father-in-law of Gov. William Hendricks of Indiana.
His death occurred at Madison on Jun. 6, 1830
(Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, its
people, industries & institutions by Hon. M. A. Broadstone,
Editor in Chief - Vol. I.- Publ. 1918 by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.) |
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| CHARLES
B. PENNINGTON, (Ross Twp.) farmer, Selma, Clarke
County, was born May 12, 1843, and reared in Chester County,
Penn. Came to Ohio in 1865, and located in Champaign
County, remaining until 1878, when he came to this county.
Was married to Ann Atkinson, Oct. 3, 1877. They have
one child, Mary Laura, aged 19 months. Mr.
Pennington farms chiefly to grain, and has a farm of one
hundred and sixty-four and a half acres, well improved, on
which he lives. Mr. and Mrs. Pennington are
members of the Friends' Church. Mr. Pennington was
educated in that church in Pennsylvania, and was then a
member of the "Hicksites." After he came to Ohio, he
became converted to the faith of orthodox Friends, and
united with them. He is a strictly temperate man;
never chewed or smoked tobacco, or tasted intoxicating
liquors, and never took the name of God in vain. His
Christian life has been one of great satisfaction to him.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pennington, Charles' parents,
were natives of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Pennington
died Feb. 14, 1877, aged seventy-two years. |
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