COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: NIXON, Joseph P. (published 1887)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887
Page 323

        JOSEPH P. NIXON is one of the leading citizens of Jefferson
Township and a representative of one of its pioneer families. He was born
in Columbiana County, Ohio, December 18, 1833, a son of John and Hannah
(Pennock) Nixon, natives also of Ohio, his grandfather, William Nixon,
being a pioneer of Columbiana County, coming from Loudoun County, Virginia.
The parents of our subject came to Jay County in 1835, and settled on
section 15, Jefferson Township, and commenced to make a home in the dense
forest. The father still lives within 200 yards of the spot where his rude
cabin was erected. The mother died in 1866, after living to rear her
family. They had a family of twelve children -Joseph P.; Sarah Jane became
the wife of T.M.C. Lutes, and died in 1857; Rebecca Ann, deceased, was the
wife of L.M. Doddridge; William, of Jefferson Township; Ruth, wife of L.M.
Doddridge, of Michigan; Emanuel; Lucette, wife of Cyrus M. Stratton, and
Matilda, wife of B.F. Van Skyock, of Jefferson Township; Eliza, deceased;
Charlotte, wife of George Taylor, of Michigan; Lucinda, and John, a
physician at Farmland, Randolph County. Joseph P. Nixon was in his third
year when his parents moved to Jay County, and with the exception of the
year 1857, spent in Missouri, has since lived in the county. His education
was obtained in the old log school house at Mount Pleasant. He made his
home with his father until 1861, working the few years preceding in
different neighborhoods at the carpenter's trade. He was married in August,
1861, to Emeline Hite, a native of Jefferson Township, where her parents,
William and Sarah Hite, settled in the spring of 1835. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon
commenced housekeeping on their present homestead, and the fine building
improvements have all been erected by him. The homestead contains 280 acres
of sections 10, 15 and 16, about 200 acres of which are under cultivation.
Mr. and Mrs. Nixon have had eight children. Their first-born, Cyrus, died,
aged a little more than two years. Those living are -James G., of Como;
Millard, Anna, Walter, Elmer, Jesse and Ida May. In politics Mr. Nixon is a
Democrat. In 1874 he was elected Treasurer of Jay County and served two
years. He has served twelve years as trustee and one term as assessor of
his township.


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