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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

   HENRY G. JOHNSON, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Fleming County, Ky.,
April 17, 1813, and is a son of Jacob and Rachel (Green) Johnson. He is next to
the youngest of the children living; was reared on his father's farm and
educated in the common schools. His first schoolhouse was a log cabin, with no
floors, furnished with a fire-place, slab seats and greased paper window lights.
When sixteen years of age, he left home, going twenty-one miles to Champaign
County to obtain work at $6 a month, $1 in cash and the remainder in goods. For
four years he worked by the month, receiving from $6 to $9 per month; then
cropped one year and worked by the job one year; after which he married, and, in
1841, bought 100 acres of land, where Rushsylvania now stands, paying $1,000. It
was largely covered with timber, and he has since cleared half of the farm and
lived on it seven years. He then lived on the Mays farm on the old Sandusky
road, remaining there one year. He accommodated pioneer travelers, although not
keeping a public house. He cleared three farms in Logan County, and on March 25,
1850, purchased his present farm of 100 acres, paying $8 an acre. In 1853, he
added 103 acres, paying $6 an acre; subsequently, in 1856, he added fifty-four
acres more, and is now the owner of 247 acres, 150 of which he has cleared and
improved himself. He started a poor boy, and by his energy and ambition secured
all he now has, and his pursuits in life have been generally successful. He has
been a great reader, acquiring considerable knowledge. On April 28, 1836, he was
united in marriage to Martha, daughter of Robert and Isabel (Burnsides) Smith,
and a native of Logan County, Ohio, born October 10, 1813. Ten children resulted
from this union, nine living, viz., Jacob R.; Isabel S., wife of J. S. Allen;
Robert H.; Savilla; Victoria, wife of Nathan Clark; Henry O., Philip G., Mary
E., and Paulina, wife of Kendrick Kennedy. Mr. Johnson and his wife are members
of the M. E. Church, to which be has belonged for sixty years and she for forty
years. Mr. Johnson has also been a local minister for twenty-five years. In
politics, he was formerly a Whig, but is now a Republican. He served as Township
Trustee for eight years. Jacob R. Johnson, the eldest son of our subject; was
the first to enlist in Hardin County; he responded to the call for 75,000 men,
and enlisted in Company _, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served in the army
of the Potomac, and fought at Romney. After a service of nine months, he was
discharged on account of disability. He then returned home, and is now residing
in Leesburg, Kosciusko Co., Ind. He was married to Margaret J. Pooder.

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Bucks Township

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"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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