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Born 1852
From The history of Clinton County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the (1882)
JOHN H. LINTON, merchant, Clarksville, son of James and Anna M. (Hadley) Linton, was born in this township, near Clarksville, April 22, 1852. When quite small, his parents moved into the village, where his father was engaged in the mercantile business a number of years. John H. attended school in the village till twenty years of age, and at the age of twenty-two he received an interest in his father’s general store, where he remained three years, and then engaged in farming five years. January 17, 1882, he bought a stock of groceries corner Pike and Second streets, and March 1 he removed to his father’s old stand nearly opposite, where he carries a $2,000 stock of staple and fancy groceries, produce, Queeusware, glassware, etc., and is already doing a good, flourishing business. He was married near Clarksville, October 28, 1875, to Carrie M., daughter of John L. and Elizabeth A. Davis, born on the farm where her parents now live, one-half mile south of Clarksville. Mr. Linton is a member of the Friends’ Church.
As printed in The history of Clinton County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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