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

JOHN OLWIN, merchant, Hutsonville, is a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, born
December 5, 1838, to David and Nancy (Grabill) Olwin. His father was born in
Pennsylvania about 1812, bnt was raised and educated in Montgomery County, Ohio,
after he arrived at his majority, he taught school for sixteen years, and
afterward engaged in agricultural pursuits until he died in 1875. He was of
German descent and a son of Anthony Olwin, a native of Pennsylvania, a soldier
of the Revolutionary war. The mother of our subject was born in Virginia, and
died in 1851, aged thirty-five years. Her ancestry was also of German descent.
She was the mother of nine children, of whom John Olwin was the third child
born. He was principally raised in Darke County, Ohio, and had but a limited
common school education. At twenty-one years of age, he left his home and
embarked on the rugged pathway of life as a farm hand, working for small wages.
At twenty-three he enlisted in the Fourty-fourth Ohio Infantry, under command of
Col. Gilbert, and was in about twenty battles, among the largest was the charge
of Greenville, Tenn. He was taken prisoner at the Cumberland Mountains, Tenn.,
while on a retreat, and confined in the Libby Prison for about a month, when he
was exchanged. He entered the war April 23, 1862, and was mustered out June 4,
1865. After the war, he returned to his home, made his parents a short visit,
and then located in Hutsonville and engaged in the furniture business in company
with Fred Earnest. After six months, he sold out the business to J. A. Parker,
and entered his employ as clerk for one year. The following year, he joined the
partnership of J. R. Hurst & Co. He has been connected with this firm for
fifteen years, and at the present time is at the head of the firm, and takes
upon himself the general management of the different stores and grain business.
He was married October 6, 1866, to Miss Rebecca F. Hurst who has borne him the
following children, viz.: Charley H., Lola M., Georgia E., Oceola, Fredie B. and
Birdie Garfield. Mr. Hurst has removed his family to Paris, Ills., where his
children can receive the benefit of its superior schools. Mr. Olwin is an active
worker in the orders A., F. & A. M. and K. of H.; he is Senior Warden of the
former and Treasurer of the latter. He has served the town as School Director,
Trustee of the town for five years, and Township Treasurer for seven years.
Politically, is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Christian
Church. Mr. Olwin is a member of the community whose loss would be deeply felt,
and is now enjoying the fruits of a well-established business, which is wholly
the results of his own energy, industry and good financiering.

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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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