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Source: Commemorative Biographical Record
of the counties of
SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO
J. B. Beers & Co. 1896
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JACKSON,
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JACKSON,
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JACKSON,
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JESCHKE,
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JOHNSON,
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JONES,
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JONES,
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JONES,
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JONES,
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JORDAN,
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JOSEPH,
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JUNE,
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JUNE,
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JUNE,
SALES A. *
JUSTICE,
JAMES, JUDGE |
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JAMES
JUSTICE, one of the early
pioneers of Sandusky county, and for nearly fifty years one of
the lie business men of Lower Sandusky (now Fremont), was
born in Bedford county, Penn., August 18, 1794, a son of William
and Eleanor (Umsted) Justice, the former of English, and the
latter of German ancestry.
At about the age of nine years our subject removed with
his parents to Ross county, Ohio, near Chillicothe, where he
received a limited rudimentary education. Here he worked
for a time at the business of tanning hides, but discontinued it
to volunteer, under Gen. William H. Harrison, in the war of
1812. He was with Harrison at Fort Seneca, at the time of
the battle of Fort Stephenson, Aug. 2, 1813. After the war
he resided at Chillicothe, and resumed tanning. About the
year 1817 he engaged in the flat-boat trade with New Orleans, by
which the early settlers along the Ohio river found a market for
their bacon, flour and whisky, in exchange for sugar and other
groceries. In this trade he displayed first-class
financial talents, and accumulated considerable cash.
On Oct. 12, 1820, he married Miss Eliza Moore,
daughter of David Moore, and sister to John and James Moore, two
well-known citizens of Ballville, both millers and
manufacturers, and both wealthy and enterprising men.
In the month of Sept., 1822, Mr. Justice removed
from Ross county to Sandusky county, and located at first in Ballville township. His manner of moving was decidedly
primitive, he placing his wife and child on horseback while he
journeyed with them on foot. For a time after his arrival
at Ballville he assisted his father-in-law in running his grist
and saw mill at that place. In 1842 he removed to Lower
Sandusky, and erected a tannery on the north side of State
street, at the foot of the hill on the west side of the river.
With the tannery he connected the business of harness making and
shoe making, managing only the financial department, leaving the
manual labor to expert workmen whom he employed in the different
shops. About the year 1847 he turned the business over to
his son, Milton J. Justice, and gave his attention to investing
and managing his capital. He made large gains by buying
and selling lands, sometimes on his own account, and sometimes
in partnership with Rodolphus Dickinson and
Sardis Birchard.
He took a prominent part in the construction of the Tiffin and
Fostoria plank roads. When the Wyandot reservation at
Upper Sandusky was sold, and the Indians removed to the Far
West. Mr. Justice was selected by the Government as
appraiser of the land, on account of his soundness of judgment
in matters of value.
Shortly after coming to Lower Sandusky Mr. Justice was
chosen, by the legislature of Ohio, one of the associate judges
of the Court of Common Pleas of Sandusky county, which office he
filled with singular promptness and fidelity for a number of
years, under the first constitution of the State. For a
period of about ten years he discharged gratuitously and
efficiently the duties of a members of the board of education of
the city of Fremont, acting most of the time as treasurer.
He was also mayor of the village for a term. In the summer
of 1859 Mr. Justice was chosen one of the jurors in the U. S.
Court at Cleveland, Ohio, in the famous "Wellington Rescue
case," in which thirty-seven citizens of Oberlin and vicinity
were prosecuted and imprisoned at Cleveland, Ohio, for
recapturing and assisting to freedom a runaway slave named John
Price, who had left his master in Kentucky to escape to Canada,
and had been concealed at Oberlin, where he was discovered and
kidnapped by the slave hunters who were on the return to the
South to restore him to his master.
When the First National Bank of Fremont was organized,
in 1863, Judge Justice placed some capital in the stock of that
institution, and he held this position by successive
re-elections until his death, May 28, 1873. He left a
large estate to his wife and children.
In person Judge Justice was a man of impressive
presence and strong magnetic power, of large size, weighing over
two hundred pounds, with light hair and complexion, blue eyes,
and full, round head and face. In business promptness and
integrity no citizen surpassed him. His portraits, drawn
by his son Milton with remarkable accuracy, may be seen at the
First National Bank, and at Birchard Library, presented by his
children.
The wife of Judge Justice was born in Huntingdon
county, Penn., Oct. 13, came with her parents to Ross county,
Ohio. Her father, David Moore, was of full Scotch blood;
her mother was born in Pennsylvania. The child Nancy,
which she brought with her on horseback, is now the wife of
Dr.
James W. Wilson, president of the First National Bank of
Fremont. Their way was through an almost unbroken
wilderness, and on their arrival here they lived for a time in a
fisherman's shanty until their own log cabin was finished.
Their means were scanty, and for nine months she never saw the
face of another white woman - only Indians, and many of them
intoxicated. Her fireplace was a wall of stones in one
corner of the shanty, above which was an opening in the roof for
the escape of smoke. If the rain put out the fire she
would go to the home of the nearest neighbor, a mile and a
quarter away, to get live coals to rekindle it. Among her
cooking utensils was a Dutch-oven, an iron shallow kettle, with
an iron lid or cover, in which all her baking was done by
setting the kettle over coals and piling coals and hot ashes on
the cover.
Mrs. Justice survived her husband until Oct. 17,
1876 when she died at the advanced age of seventy-six years.
Their children were: Nancy E. Wilson
(wife of Dr. James W. Wilson), Minerva E. (relict of
Hon. Homer Everett), and Mrs. S.
Eliza Failing (relict of Dr. John W. Failing), all now residing
in Fremont; Milton J. Justice, a resident of Lucas county, Ohio
and Granville M., who died at Lower Sandusky at the age of
sixteen years. The old Justice homestead is still occupied
by Mrs. Everett and Mrs. Failing, who cherish the memory of
their parents, and preserve with scrupulous care and old-time
family relics, consisting of household furniture and pioneer-day
portraits.
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