Hamilton County OhArchives Biographies.....Bonham, John Hargitt (Jr.) 1888 - 
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Author: John C Hover, et.al.

   John Hargitt Bonham, Jr., one of the capable and efficent agriculturists of
Hamilton county, Ohio, was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, August 5, 1888, a
son of John Hughes and Sarah Bonham. He was reared to farm life and like most
farmers' boys, attended the district schools. He stayed under the parental roof
until his twenty-sixth year, when he engaged in agriculture for himself,
purchasing a fine farm in Miller township, Dearborn county, Indiana. This he
sold in 1919 and purchased another in Whitewater township on section No. 9,
Hamilton county, Ohio, where he follows general farming at the present .time.
Politically, Mr. Bonham is a stanch Democrat, but though he takes a keen
interest in the affairs of the political arena, he never cared to hold office.
In religious affiliation, he and his family are consistent members of the
Methodist Episcopal church. On the 10th day of April, 1915, Mr. Bonham, Jr., was
united in marriage with Miss Estella Marie Rechenbach, a daughter of Charles and
Mary (Renck) Rechenbach, of Harrison township, Hamilton county, Ohio. Charles
Rechenbach was born in Saxony, Germany, July 31, 1836 and was brought to the
United States when but a child of two years. He was educated in the public
schools of Cincinnati, where his parents located, and when he reached the age of
maturity, engaged in the pursuit of agriculture at which he continued throughout
his life. He married Mary Renck, who was born in Harrison township, whose death
occurred in 1907, and they became the parents of these children, as follows:
John, deceased; Edward, who resides in Harrison township; Emma, who is the widow
of Albert Heuck, of Rockdale, Ind.; Sarah, the wife of William Bolz, of
Cincinnati, Ohio. Michael, who resides in Cincinnati, Ohio; Henry, a resident of
Bright, Ind.; Louis, Margaret, and Alice, all deceased, and Estella-Marie, who
is the wife of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bonham, Jr., are the parents of
one son, Glenn Richard, who was born March 27, 1917. In concluding this review
of Mr. Bonham's life, it may be said that besides being a prominent
agriculturist of Whitewater township, he is a shrewd business man, who is noted
for his progressive and public spirited co-operation in any movement which has
for its ultimate object the betterment of the state and people. His friends are
numerous throughout the county, and they all love and respect him as a man of
strict integrity, sterling worth and a citizen of whom any county might be proud.

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