The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
J. J. SINK, who operates a farm of 160 acres located on the Houcktown Road in Jack- son Township, Hancock County, O., was born August 27, 1847, in Jackson Township, this county, and is a son of John W. and Susan R. Sink, both natives of Pennsylvania. The father was a farmer and blacksmith and after his mar- riage came to Hancock County, O., where he and his wife both died.
J. J. Sink grew to maturity in Jackson Town- ship and received his education in the district schools. He was reared a farmer and has al- ways engaged in agricultural pursuits, and purchased his present farm of 160 acres from the Struble heirs about five years ago. Mr. Sink is politically a Democrat and has served his township as trustee. He has been a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church for the past forty years.
In 1873 Mr. Sink married Miss Lucy A. Struble, who is a daughter of Peter and Mary (Corwin) Struble, who owned and resided on the farm now owned by our subject. Peter Struble was born in New Jersey and his wife in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Sink have reared the following children : Maud M., who taught five years in the district schools of Jackson, Eagle and Liberty Townships, mar- ried Andrew Altman, a mechanic of Findlay,
O., and is the mother of two children — Blanche and Everett ; Harley, who is a graduate of the Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, O., and has been practicing medicine for the past six years at Columbus Grove, married Sarah Stewart and they have two children — La Verne and Beda Alta; Ethel, who was edu- cated at Mt. Blanchard, taught three years in Delaware and Jackson Townships, married Charles Hauman, who is at present operating a farm of 200 acres, and is the owner of a tract of eighty acres in Jackson Township, where they reside, and they have five children — Mary, Nellie, Margaret, Helen and Leonard; and Oscar O., who has been practicing medi- cine at Smithfield, O., for one year, is a grad- uate of the Cleveland Medical College, and married Lillian Sampson, who, previous to her marriage, was a teacher.
Source: Biographical Record of Hancock County, Ohio. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.
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