Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Jervis, John F. 1863 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 26, 2006, 4:00 am Author: John C. Odell (1916) JOHN F. JERVIS. Since his entire life has been spent in Democrat township, Carroll county, Indiana, John F. Jervis needs no introduction to the people of Carroll county. His life has been devoted, not only to fostering his own interests, but to the welfare of the public generally. He is an honorable representative of one of the esteemed families of this section and a gentleman of high character and worthy ambitions, one who has filled no small place in the public life. He is a splendid type of the intelligent, up-to-date, self-made American and is regarded as one of the very best business men of which Carroll county can boast. As a citizen he is abreast of the times and commands the unqualified respect of the community where he lives. The director of the Cutler Telephone Company, he owns five hundred acres of land, and keeps a high grade of live stock on the farm and has mastered all of the details of improved methods of farming. Mr. Jervis, who resides on rural route No. 1, out of Cutler, Indiana, was born in Democrat township, November 26, 1863. He is the son of Isaiah and Rebecca (Campbell) Jervis, the former of whom was born in Butler county, Ohio, October 17, 1824, and who was the son of Thomas and Mary (Patty) Jervis, natives of Maryland. Thomas and Mary (Patty) Jervis each came to Butler county, Ohio, with their parents and were married in Butler county. Upon immigrating to the Hoosier state, they located on the present site of West Indianapolis as early as 1830. There they entered a tract of land, which was subsequently cleared and improved. Upon selling out in Marion county, Indiana, they moved to Carroll county and located in Democrat township, where they lived until their deaths. He died in 1882, and his wife about 1873. Isaiah Jervis was sixteen or seventeen years of age when his parents moved to Carroll county. He followed different occupations until the breaking out of the Mexican War, when he enlisted as a soldier in an Indiana Company and served until the end of the war. In 1848 he returned to Carroll county and the next year, was married to Rebecca Campbell, the daughter of John and Martha (Walker) Campbell. John Campbell immigrated from Kentucky to Tippecanoe county in 1828, and, three years later, moved to Carroll county, Indiana, settling on a farm in Democrat township. He was a tanner by trade and operated a tanyard at what was first called Xenia and later Horseshoe Bend, north of Cutler. Martha (Walker) Campbell lived to be ninety-two years old. Her daughter, Rebecca (Campbell) Jervis, who was born in 1830, died in 1914. Of the ten children born to Isaiah and Rebecca (Campbell) Jervis, three are now living, Martha, the wife of Thomas Larkins, of Frankfort, Indiana; John F., the subject of this sketch; and Luella E., the wife of Edward Reef, of Democrat township. Born in Democrat township, reared on a farm in this township and educated in the common schools, John F. Jervis remained at home until his marriage, March 11, 1886, to Elizabeth J. Gee, a native of Democrat township, born on January 13, 1867. Mrs. Jervis was reared on a farm and was the daughter of Benjamin and Malissa (Fee) Gee, old settlers in Carroll county. Benjamin Gee was born in Butler county, Ohio, who came to Carroll county about 1829, with his father Andrew Gee, and his mother, Elizabeth (Meadow) Gee. After Mr. and Mrs. Jervis were married, they began life on a farm and, for a few years, rented land. They moved to their present farm in April, 1895, and have lived here ever since, a period of twenty years. Mr. and Mrs. Jervis have five living children. Marvin V., a graduate of the Cutler high school, who married Mayme Allen; Leonard, a graduate of the common schools; Herbert, Florence and Mary, all of whom live at home. Mr. and Mrs. Jervis are members of the Baptist church at Rossville, Indiana. Mr. Jervis is one of the trustees of the church and the whole family, in fact, are active in religious work. Although identified nominally with the Republican party, John F. Jervis has never been especially active in political affairs. May we not believe that his large success as a farmer is due, in a considerable degree, to the fact that he has avoided politics and has applied himself diligently to farming. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Biographical Section of HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS BY JOHN C ODELL With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ILLUSTRATED 1916 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/jervis235nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 5.2 Kb