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Born 1820
From History of Morrow County and Ohio : containing a brief history of the state of Ohio ... a history of Morrow County ... biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, (1880)
JOHN NEWSON, farmer; P.O.,Mt. Gilead; was born in Washington Co., Md., March 2 1820, and lived there five years, when the family moved to Ohio, stopping a few months at Mansfield; they then came to this vicinity and settled on the farm Mr. Newson now lives on. The family arrived with a six-horse team and a two-horse carriage; they put up a tent and lived in the same until a log cabin could be built, in which they lived while clearing the farm. At the age of. 25 John and his father conducted the farm in partnership, though John superintended, to a great extent, from the age of 17 onward; the conditions of the partnership continued until the death of his parents. Jan. 18, 1847, he married Miss Ruth Blakeley; she was born in. Virginia, and came to this county with her parents when young; they have no children. His parents, Abraham and Lucy (Friendy Newson, were natives of Washington Co., Md.; they married in Maryland and came here as stated, in 1825, and lived here until their deaths, April 1861, and Feb. 1867, respectively.
As printed in History of Morrow County and Ohio : containing a brief history of the state of Ohio ... a history of Morrow County ... biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, (1880). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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