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Born 1870
From A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902)
JOHN CHARLES NAVE.
John Charles Nave, who follows farming in Green township on the place where he was born, October 6, 1870, is a son of John Garlough and Margaret Elizabeth (Gram) Nave, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume. The home farm became his play ground in boyhood and his training school for the practical duties of a farmer’s life. His literary education was acquired in the common schools and he remained under the parental roof until his marriage, which was celebrated on the 7th of April, 1892, at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage in Springfield, Miss Jennie Matilda Littler, of Pitchin, becoming his wife. She is a daughter of James R. and Margaret (Hurley) Littler, who are also mentioned elsewhere in this work. In their family were twelve children, of whom Mrs. Nave is the sixth in order of birth, while Mr. Nave was the youngest in a family of five children. Their home has been blessed with six children:
Olive Esther, born in Springfield August 17, 1892; Margaret Elizabeth, born in Green township June 17, 1894; Goldie Fern, born November 18, 1895; Harold Jennings, born February 27, 1897; Paul De Motte, born September 12, 1898; and Frank Russell, born February 23, 1900.
For one year after his marriage Mr. Nave resided in Springfield, working in the Ross shops and also in the Lagonda shops. He then came to his present place of residence in Green township, and has had charge of this farm ever since. He operates one hundred and fifty-three acres of land, which he has fenced and the fields have been placed under a high state of cultivation. He also has a dairy of sixteen cows. His farm work fully occupies his time, and indolence and idleness are utterly foreign to his nature. He is independent in politics and takes an active part in political work. In April, 1900, he was elected to the office of road supervisor in district. No. 1. which office he still holds. He became a charter member of the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, and during the first year served as one of its trustees.
As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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