CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: JOHN M. CHESNEY (1881)

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CRAWFORD COUNTY
HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.724 
CHICAGO
BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS
186 DEARBORN STREET
1881

BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO

JOHN M. CHESNEY. physician and druggist, Bucyrus; was born May 31, 1825 in Mercer Co., Penn. and is the
son of John and Elizabeth (Mahon) Chesney. His early youth was passed on a farm and the earlier part of his
education was received at a district school. At the age of 16 years he entered an academy at Jamestown, Penn.
after some time spent there in diligent study, he taught some two terms of school, and then commenced the study
of medicine in the office of his brother Robert, in Shelocta, at the age of 19. He was thus engaged for three years,
and practiced in company with his brother. He removed to Ohio in the spring of 1847, and remained with his
brother at Marseilles for some six months, when he located at Huntsville, Hardin Co. and there visited his patients
on foot when the roads were well nigh impassable by other means. On one of these pedestrian trips, he was lost
near the Hog Creek Marsh and remained there all night, being unable to regain his way. In the spring of 1851 he
located in Kenton, Ohio, and remained there some two years. He then went to Marseilles and remained until 1876,
excepting, three years spent in Upper Sandusky. In January of 1876 he removed to Bucyrus and engaged in
business at 5 Quinby Block, where he is now engaged dealing in drugs and books, in which trade he receives a
large share of the public patronage. He was married at Kenton in May, l851 to Junelia Thompson. Of this
marriage there were born five children, three of whom survive: John A., Vill Roy and Floy. Dr. Chesney is a
physician of considerable merit, and as a merchant he has met with deserved success, and stands high among the
leading business men of Bucyrus.