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* ABBOTT, John S.
* ACKERMAN, Harvey
* ACKERMAN, L. B.
* ADAMS, Arthur
* ADAMS, George
* ADAMS, Jacob
* ADAMS, James
* ADAMS, John
* ADAMS, Morton D., Rev.
* ALER, Charles E.
* ALLEN, Ashel
* ALLEN, Francis M.
* ALLEN, James

* ALLEN, W. P.
* AMOS, John F.
* AMSBAUGH, Christopher C.
* ANDERS, William P.
* ANDERSON, W. B.
* ANDREWS, James M.
* ANDREWS, Lorin, LL. D.
* ARMENTROUT, Robert M.
* ARMENTROUT, Simon
* ARMSTRONG, Eliphlet
* ARMSTRONG & MILLER
* AXTELL, J. M.

* ARMSTRONG, William
* ARNHOLD, Adam
* ASH, James
* ASHTON, Elizabeth, Mrs.
* ATHERTON, John
* ATWOOD, Harrison
* AUSTIN, B. D.
* AUTEN, Henry
* AUTEN, Henry M.
* AUTEN, J. W.
* AUTEN, Thomas B.
* AUTEN, William A.

	JOHN S. ABBOTT, farmer, was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1826. In 1855 he emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, locating in Mt. Vernon. In the fall of the same year he purchased the farm on which he is now livign, in Clinton township, located on the Granville road, two miles from Mt. Vernon, and has sine made farming his occupation. February 15, 1865, he married Miss Mary E. Johnston, born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, March 11, 1842, daughter of James and Mary J. Johnson. They moved on his farm, where they are now living. Their union resulted in one child, a daughter.
	L. B. ACKERMAN, insurance agent, Fredericktown, was born in Knox county, Ohio, August 17, 1839, and was married September 20, 1871, to Ella Cook, who was born in Wayne county, June 12, 1848. They have four children, viz: Ida C., born July 8, 1872; William A., December 26, 1873; Ernest Lee, March 13, 1875, and Edith E., March 31, 1879. Mr. Ackerman received a liberal education and has been engaged in teaching, having taught school twenty-three years. He was principal of the Fredericktown union schools during the years 1877 and 1878, and has the reputation of being one of the ablest instructors of Knox county. He is at present engaged in the insurance and collecting business. He has been a citizen of Fredericktown for three years, and is one of the intelligent and enterprising men of this township, and has done much to promote the standard of education in Knox county. He has also taken quite an active part in political matters.
	HARVEY ACKERMAN, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in Middlebury township, July 14, 1850; married in 1872 to Ara Smith who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1852. They have two children - Blanche, born Jan. 10, 1874, and Carle, born July 2, 1877. Mrs. Ara Ackerman died April 2, 1878. Mr. Ackerman has been engaged in teaching school about ten years.
	JACOB ADAMS, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, came to Ohio when fourteen years of age, and was married in 1850 to Sabra Brown, who was born in the township in 1830. They have six children, viz: Annetta, born in 1854; Alice M., in 1856; Sabie C., in 1858; Mary E., in 1860; Duddie, in 1863, and John E., in 1866. Mr. Adams is a prosperous farmer, and a careful, judicious financier.
	JAMES ADAMS, Monroe township, deceased, son of John and Ann Adams, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, Nov. 22, 1792. He accompanied his parents to this county in 1811, who located near Mt. Vernon, where they deceased - Mrs. Adams in 1827, and Mr. Adams in 1829. James Adams was reared on a farm, and followed farming as his vocation through life. Oct. 10, 1815, he married Miss Eleanor Newell, daughter of Hugh and Margaret Newell, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1798, and came to Knox county with her sister, Mary, wife of Judge McGibeney, in 1820. Mr. and Mrs. Adams settled on a farm in Monroe township, known as the Hunt farm, and remained until 1836. They then moved on farm in the same township, located on Schenck's creek, now owned by their son, Allison Adams, where he deceased April 1, 1838. His companion survives him at the age of eighty-two years, and is living on the home farm with her son Allison. He served in the War of 1812. He filled the office of justice of the peace in Monroe township about ten years. He was the father of three children: John, born Aug. 5, 1816; Allison, born Nov. 6, 1818; and Mary J., born Nov. 12, 1820. John and Mary I. have deceased. Allison Adams married Miss Phebe A. Paige, of Monroe township, who deceased Oct. 10, 1854. He was then united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth E. Dowds, in Nov. 1855; born Dec. 27, 1834; daughter of Elijah Dowds, deceased. They settled on the Adams homestead, where they are now living. They have a family of six children - three sons and three daughters. He has made farming and stock raising his vocation. He owns a large farm in Monroe township. He enlisted in company H, of the Sixty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served about ten months in the war of 1861. He was in the battle of Stone River Dec. 31, 1862. He has served the people of Monroe township as justice of the peace since Oct., 1865.
	GEORGE ADAMS, deceased, was born in Redgrave, a village in Suffolk county, England, March 16, 1797. He came to America in 1853, first settling in Gambier, where he lived one year, and then removed to Mt. Vernon, where he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred about noon on Thursday, December 4, 1879, in the eighty-third year of his age. Mr. Adams was twice married. By his first wife he had thirteen children, seven of whom are still living 0 five sons and two daughters - Mr. Adam Adams, of the firm of Adams & Rogers, hardware merchants, being the eldest. Besides these, he leaves twenty-four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Mr. Adams' death was sudden. He had been engaged in wheeling tanbark from the street in to his lot, and at diner time his wife found him in the front yard, lying on his back, dead. Apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause of his death.

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