Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Olwin, J. C. 1838 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  JUDGE J. C. OLWIN, lawyer and County Judge, Robinson, was born December 6,
1838, in Montgomery County, Ohio, and was brought up on the farm. His facilities
for an education were good, and he attended several of the leading institutions
of learning of his native State, thus receiving a good, practical education. In
1860, he commenced the study of law in Dayton, and, in 1862, matriculated in the
Ohio State and Union Law School of Cleveland, where he graduated in 1863, and in
the fall of the next year came to Crawford County, Ill. Upon his arrival here he
taught one term of school near Palestine, and then located in Robinson and
commenced the practice of his chosen profession-the law. He was elected to the
Thirty-second General Assembly, which term expired  in  1882, and in November of
the same year, was elected County Judge, which position he now fills. He has
also filled the office of master in chancery two terms (four years). Judge Olwin
is a Republican in politics, and when it is taken into cosideration that he has
been elected to these positions in a Democratic county, his popularity as a
citizen and his integrity as a public officer is at once apparent to the reader.
Judge Olwin was married January 4, 1866, to Miss Amelia A. Tobey, of Montgomery
County, Ohio. The result of this marriage is a family of six children, five of
whom are living, viz.: Harry, Claudia E., Ora M., Tobey and Beulah. Dead-Jessie.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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