Blue Mound Township (part 2 of 2)

John D. also claims Lehigh county as the place of his nativity. He tvas about ten years old when his parents moved to Summit county, Ohio. There he was raised and secured a good education, and also learned the harness-making trade. He entered the army in 1862, and fought in the Union ranks till the close of the war, and was in the battles of the Wilderness, Gettysburg and other serious engagements of the eastern campaigns. He was seriously wounded at Gettysburg, and came very near being a sacrifice on the altar of the country for his devotion to the Union. He won a reputation while in the service, of a brave soldier and a true patriot. After the close of hostilities he returned to Ohio, and worked at his trade till 1871, when he came to Blue Mound and embarked in the grocery trade, in which business he represents the oldest house of the kind in the town. He has a large and growing business, and has proved himself a valuable acquisition as a good merchant and an active promoter of general enterprise. He is democratic in politics, and does not consider that in any respect his record as a Union soldier is compromised thereby. He fought in the army alone for the integrity of the Union and not for any system of principles purely political, and now votes the democratic ticket as embodying the best doctrines for the government of the nation.

Eleazer House

In giving historical sketches of the more prominent gentlemen of the county, it would not be right to omit the popular supervisor of Pleasant View township. He is a Buckeye by nativity, and was born July 27th, 1822. His father, John House, a native of the Keystone State, moved to Ohio in 1814. He was married in Pennsylvania to Miss Sarah Nicely, a short time after his return from the war of 1812. On settling in Ohio, a location was selected in Jefferson county, in which he improved a neat farm, on which he died in 1833, leaving his widow with six children. This property was afterwards sold for $16,000, and the family moved to Medina county, where their mother died in 1853. Mr. House was married in Jefferson county in 1851, the object of matrimonial alliance being Miss Nancy E. Frazer. After a brief wedded life, death sundered the relation, and he buried this excellent companion in Medina county in 1855. She left two children, one of whom, (Samuel, now residing in Arkansas,) still survives. In the same county he married his second wife, Miss Flora A. Martin, the daughter of James and Lucretia Martin. Within five years he was compelled to surrender this lady also to the stern mandate of Nature, which consigns all to the tomb. She died in 1860, and also left two children, - a son, now in business in Blue Mound, and an unmarried daughter at home. Mr. House bought his farm near Blue Mound in 1865, but did not move to it till the spring of 1866, and since that time the people have known him as a husbandman. Here he has made first-class improvements, and though not extensively engaged in agriculture, he manages to make every part of his quarter section of land pay good dividends. Taste and good management are everywhere manifest on his premises - unstinted hospitality makes his home not only one of refinement aud elegance, but of social and intellectual enjoyment.

He has made himself generally useful in aiding measures looking to the public welfare, and has also borne a part in the discharge of official business. He is now serving as supervisor, for the eighth term, besides being in former years clerk and collector. He is not, however, an office-seeker, and feels more disposed to evade than to court positions of public trust. In politics he is a democrat of the old Jacksonian school ; and therefore, while he holds that the relations between the General Government and States cannot be peaceably severed, he maintains the theory of strict construction as a doctrine of the Federal Constitution, and that the States, the great bulwarks of our freedom, have rights that the Congress of the Nation are bound to respect. He, with all good democrats, denounces

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Farmer and Stock Raiser 25, '80 Late bus. of Marg't Smith Sec. 10 Farmer and Stock Raiser 10 Wife of Christian Schnab 6 Farmer and Stock Raiser 6 Wife of John Stickler 33 Farmer and Stock Raiser 33 Wife of T. M. Taylor 4 Farmer and Stock Raiser 4 Wife of James Y. Taylor 19 St. Saw-mill &Lum. Deal 19] Wife of Wm. H. Wilson 15 Farm., St'k Rais. & Twp. Asp 15 Wife of W. H. Weatherford 21 Wife of J- C. Sudy 21 Farmer and Stock Raiser and Woolenware Wife of J. D. Seiberling " Prop, of the Ward House Ohio Wife of Robert D. Ward Ohi_ Sec. 30 Farmer and Stock Raiser Penn. 30 Wifeof Jon. Weygandt Penn. 30 Farmer and Stock Raiser Ohio 30 Wife of J. F. Weygandt Ohio