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Born 1844, Jefferson township
From History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881)
BUXTON JAMES, Jefferson township; post> office, Warsaw; was born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, August 13, 1844; son of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, and grandson of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, who settled in Tuscarawas county, in 1804. He lived on the farm until the age of twenty, then began clerking in a store in Walhonding, for N. W. Buxton, and continued two years. He then engaged as clerk* with James Foster, of Warsaw, and remained with him two years; returning to Walhonding, he clerked a year and a half for J. S. McVey, after which he engaged in bridge building for three and a half years, then returned to James Foster's and clerked six months'. He then engaged with Nickols & Gamble in merchandising in Warsaw, and has been there near three years. In 1864 he drove 1,200 sheep to Valparaiso, Indiana, and from there went to Cedar county, Iowa, remaining one year. He is a kind, genial young man, highly esteemed and well adapted to business.
As printed in History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: James Foster (b. 1830)
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