Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Frey, John 1806 - 1868
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Author: Warner & Beers (1883)

JOHN HALEY, farmer and manufacturer of drain tiles, P. O. Kenton, was born in
New York City January 8, 1837, and was brought by his parents to Goshen
Township, Hardin Co., Ohio, in the same fall. His mother carried him on her back
from Sandusky, performing the journey on foot, while his father carried the
household effects. His father, Patrick Haley, was born in County Sligo, Ireland,
in 1812, and his mother, Susan, also in Ireland in 1805. They were married in
New York, and had six children born to them, our subject being the only
surviving member. No roads had been built in those early days, the father of our
subject having to carry two bushels of corn nine miles to mill and back, by
paths through woods. He witnessed the clearing of the ground where the public
square now is. He has cut twenty-five acres of grass in a season, assisted only
by John, when the latter was but fourteen years old, doing all by hand and
carrying it on poles to the stack. John used to mow two acres of grass for a
day's work, receiving for same 37 1/2 cents. The parents are still living, and
are residing in Goshen Township, on the farm which they settled. Our subject was
married, October 11, 1859, to Miss Sarah L., daughter of Harrison and Emma
(Freszell) Barren She was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, March 27, 1836. The
results of this union have been ten children, viz., Emma S. (deceased), Mary R.,
Patrick R. Harrison Y., Peter G., John F., Charles E., William I. (deceased),
Sarah J. and Alice M. Mr. Haley is a self-made man, having started in life a
poor man. After his marriage, he took a job of clearing ten acres of land ready
for plowing, receiving only $30 for same. In 1862, he bought and cleared forty
acres of land in Section 23, Goshen Township, and in 1864 bought 160 more acres
of wild land, and being inclined to speculate, he eventually sold and bought out
the heirs of his father-in law in Section 26, Goshen Township, but, which he
afterward sold out for the old Wheeler farm, a pioneer farm, and this he
subsequently exchanged for his present home in Section 8. He has been for four
years a Representative, being elected in 1875, and again in 1877, and is a
prominent and popular citizen.


Additional Comments:
Goshen Township

Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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