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IRA JACKSON, firm of Baith &
Jackson, merchants, Atwater, was born in Mt. Vernon, Knox Co., Ohio, in
1853, and is an adopted son of Josiah and Lucy A. (Phinney) Jackson,
former of whom, now in his seventy-ninth year, is a native of Rutland County,
Vt., and the latter of Dover, Ohio. The family settled in Freedom
Township, this county, at an early date and cleared a farm where they resided
until their removal to this village. The subject of this sketch served an
apprenticeship of ten years at Ravenna in merchandising,, and in the spring of
1884 formed the present partnership. This firm are successors to Brush,
Alden & Butler, the leading business house of Atwater. Mr. Jackson
married, August 15, 1877, Miss Mary F., daughter of Capt. J. C. Long,
of Nantucket, commander of a whaling vessel for years, but now living a retired
life in Ravenna. The children born to this union are William and
George. Mr. Jackson is a member of the Congregational Church; a
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S. W. JOHNSON, farmer, P. O.
Atwater, was born in New Haven County, Conn., in 1825; son of Levi and Eliza
(Riggs) Johnson, who crossed the country, arriving in this county in 1834,
and settling in Rootstown Township, where the father purchased a farm and
founded a home. In 1846 Levi Johnson removed to Atwater Township,
where he lived till the close of his life, August 25, 1862. His widow is
now in the eighty-sixth year of her age. Of the children born to this
couple, but two survive: S. W. and Henry. The subject
of this sketch was married, in 1849, to Miss Sally, daughter of
Stephen Wooley, deceased. His living children are James R. and
Eliza, wife of B. F. Hathawayb, present Clerk of Atwater Township.
In 1850 Mr. Johnson settled on a farm of 100 acres in the northern part
of Atwater Township, on which he resided until 1882, when he moved to his
present farm, comprising sixty acres, situated near Atwater Station. He
has spent a life-time a labor and toil in clearing land and creating from the
wilderness scenes of growth and abundance. |
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