HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO - BIO: JONATHAN COVALT (1883)

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KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS     
William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, 
was first publiched in 1883 by AT Andreas, Chicago, IL
 

  JONATHAN COVALT, farmer and stock raiser, Section 7, Township 32 Range 20, P. 
O. Parsons. His farm contains 200 acres of finely improved land. He settled 
in the county in 1873 and improved a farm in Labette County, and settled 
where he now resides in 1879. He was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, May 16, 
1831. Is a son of William H. and Elizabeth Lyman Covalt, both of the same 
county. Mr. J. Covalt's parents and grandparents were born in Hamilton 
County, Ohio. His great-grandparents were among the first settlers in that 
county, his great-great-grandfather being killed by the Indians in 1790. 
Jonathan received a fine education at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and 
began life as a teacher. He resided at Paxton, Ford Co., Ill., a number of 
years. Was County Surveyor four years. During the years of 1879 and 1880 was 
Superintendent of the public schools of Labette County, Kan. He was married 
in Illinois, October 16, 1859, to Miss Margaret E. STITES, a native of 
Danville, Ill., where she was born January 19, 1842, being a daughter of 
Benjamin F. and Susan E. Stites, natives of Hamilton County, Ohio, but 
residents of Illinois many years. Mr. and Mrs. C. have a family of seven 
children; Wm. B., Laura B., Susan E., Alice C., Mary E., Clara J., Margaret 
E., having lost Marie E. and Catharine E. Both are members of the First 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Parsons.