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From History of Madison County Ohio: Its People, Industries and Institutions (1915), Portrait and biographical record of Fayette, Pickaway and Madison counties, Ohio : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of (1892)
OHN WESLEY CHENOWETH. The gentleman whose name figures above may be counted among the prominent farmers and stock-raisers of Madison County, where his home is pleasantly located in Range Township. He is a native of this county, having been born in Pleasant Township, September 9, 1846, to J. B. and Eliza (Foster) Chenoweth, for a further history of whom the reader is referred to their sketch in another portion of this work.
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In April, 1879, John W. Chenowetli moved to the place were he is at present residing, the estate, which includes two hundred and sixteen acres, being his portion of the old home farm. He has erected splendid outbuildings on the place, not the least conspicuous among which is his commodious residence. He has laid many rods of tiling and i)faced his farm under such excellent cultivation that it ranks among the very best in the county.
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The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Chenoweth was celebrated October 13, 1875, and by their union have been born two children, sons: John Howard, born in Range Township, July 6, 1876, and Walter >Scott, born on the 16th of October, 1878.
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In politics, Mr. Chenoweth is a stalwart Republican but is not a politician in the sense of officeseeking. He has served as a delegate to the county conventions of his party and has frequently served as a.Judge of the elections. He is a man highly esteemed for his sterling worth and integrity. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic lodge of Sedalia, being initiated into its mysteries in 1886, and has served as Junior Warden. His estimable wife is a mem])er of the Methodist Church at Bethel Chapel. She is a faithful worker in the Sundaj'-school and takes an active interest in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the AVoman's Christian Temperance Union. This worthy couple, so widely and favorably known in the community, well deserve representation in this volume.
As printed in Portrait and biographical record of Fayette, Pickaway and Madison counties, Ohio : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of (1892). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
JOHN W. CHENOWETH.
A writer on agricultural subjects has said, “The farm must supply in the future, as it has in the past, the leaders in statesmenship, science, art, commerce and industries of all kinds.” To be a successful farmer, therefore, requires characteristics Involving the same qualities which make for success in other lines of human achievement. Although the pathway of the present subject was made somewhat less rugged by the inheritance of land, yet, in retaining this and adding to it be developed the same traits of character which all successful men must possess. Mr. Chenoweth was born on September 9, 1846, in Pleasant township, Madison county, Ohio, being the son of Jeremiah B. and Eliza (Foster) Chenoweth.
Jeremiah B. Chenoweth, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, was quite prominent in his time, being owner at his death of fourteen hundred acres of land, and well known in the county. He was the son of John and Margaret (Ferguson) Chenoweth and was born on September 22, 1816, near London, Ohio, in Fairfield township. He was a prosperous and hard-working farmer, but always bad time for an interest in affairs concerning his native county. He remained at home until a young man, and then did farm work away from home until 1847, when with his earnings he was able to purchase the present farm of over one thousand acres. When he bought the same it was covered with timber and swamps, but the improvements which he immediately began to make soon increased the value from the original sale price of seven dollars an acre. The first home of this pioneer and his wife was a log cabin, and in this they lived from 1887 until 1800, when they built a fourteen-room house which later burned down.
Eliza Foster was born on April 2. 1824, in Ross county, Ohio, her parents, James and Margaret (Bowyer) Foster, natives of the same county. They came to Madison county about 1825 and located in Bange township. The mother died in 1906. To Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Chenoweth were born nine children, the eldest and youngest being girls who died in childhood. The children were: Martha, deceased; James F., killed in the Civil War; John W., the 'subject of this sketch; Daniel, Nelson P. and George W., all of whom are deceased; Scott, a retired farmer of London; Newton, who lives in Muncie, Indiana; and Mary A., deceased. The boys born in this home and who later died all reached manhood before their death.
John W. Chenoweth was married twice, his first wife being Alice Henry, to whom he was married in 1872. She was born in 1847 and died in 1874. Having been a widower for four years, Mr. Chenoweth then married Sarah C. Creatb, born on February 23, 1852, in Pleasant township, who is the daughter of Owen and Harriet ( Loofbourrow > Creath. Having, attended the district schools, In 1865 she was admitted as a student in the Mt. Sterling high school and later became a teacher in her eighteenth year. Her first school was in Pleasant township, and for the following nine years she taught in Madison and Fayette county schools. Mrs. Chenoweth’s father was born on November 26, 1825, In Pleasant township, and migrated to Iowa with his family when still a young man, the journey being made in covered wagons, when even pioneers were few in number. This family settled in Washington county. During the war Mr. Creath enlisted at Washington, Iowa, in Company K. One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, as it is sometimes called, in the first battle in which he took part. Mr. Creath was born on December 24, 1827, at Lancaster, Ohio. Both parents of Mrs. Chenoweth were Presbyterians. Mrs. Chenoweth had only two sisters. To this union were born six children, namely: Mrs. Mary Lohr, of London, Ohio; Fillmore Jackson, who died in 1852; Mrs. Sarah Chenoweth; Mrs. Helen Lohr, of Augusta. Georgia; Elmira, deceased; Thomas L., of Range township.
By his second wife Mr. Chenoweth became the father of three children, these
S20 being Mrs. Mary Browning Brown, of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Helen B. Cook, of Columbus, Ohio; and Armour, who is married and living at home with the parents.
Mr. Chenoweth is a Methodist and a Republican. He has been noted as a farmer for his expert and progressive methods in farm work and as a man capable of sincere and lifelong friendships.
As printed in History of Madison County Ohio: Its People, Industries and Institutions (1915). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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