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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

   HOSEA JOHNSON, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Monroe Township, Logan Co.,
Ohio, December 11, 1817. His father, Jacob Johnson, was born in Monmouth County,
N. J., March 15, 1779. His mother, Rachel Green, was born in Bourbon County,
Ky., in 1784. His grandfather was Andrew Johnson, who came from Holland before
the Revolution, settled in New Jersey, and in 1780 removed with his family to
Boone County, Ky. The following year Daniel Boone left that county. Mrs.
Johnson, wife of Jacob Johnson, was of English and Welsh descent. Her father,
George Green, worked his way across the ocean on a sailing vessel when nineteen
years of age. He settled in Bourbon County, Ky., and, in 1811, came to Logan
County, Ohio, where he died. Our subject's parents married July 12, 1802. His
father was an old hunter, and followed that occupation in Kentucky, where bears
were so numerous that people could hardly keep their hogs, and had to pen them
up. Mr. Johnson, early one morning, was aroused by the squealing of some hogs,
and suddenly started out in pursuit of the bear. He followed the noise, and soon
found the object of his search. The bear was biting and cuffing the hog, which
he held up, but on seeing the hunter he fled. Mr. Johnson, knowing the bear
would soon return, secreted himself behind a log, and shortly after bruin came
back and perched himself with his fore feet on the log, snuffing around, upon
which the hunter shot him in the region of the heart. The animal was found to
weigh 500 pounds. When Jacob Johnson came to Logan County, he "squatted" on
1,000 acres of land, which he occupied seventeen years. He then bought
eighty-seven acres of land at $2 an acre in Rush Creek Township, which land he
cleared of the timber covering it. His father's home was used as a church for
twenty-five years, and his house was the home of the itinerant. He was first
identified with the old Calvin Baptists, and afterward with the Methodist
Church, in which he labored until his death. He died in August, 1868, and his
wife preceded him, September 18, 1850. They had twelve children, ten sons and
two daughters, five living. Our subject, the youngest child, was reared on a
farm and given a common school education. He aided his father in clearing the
farm, and lived with him until twenty-two years old. On January 2, 1840, he was
married to Nancy Rosbrugh, born in Logan County, Ohio, February 11, 1817. Her
parents, Hilkiah and Susan (Deardeff) Rosbrugh, were natives of Virginia, whence
they moved and settled in Logan County, Ohio, near West Liberty, where their
daughter Nancy was reared to womanhood. Mrs. Rosbrugh was born May 18, 1787,
died May 2, 1851, in Logan County; her husband was born October 30, 1782, died
April 17, 1828, in Bedford County, Va. They had eleven children, ten living,
viz., Susan, wife of James Morrison; Elizabeth, wife of H. N. Smith; John C.;
Sophromia, wife of P. F. Latimer; George F.; M. Micajah; Jane, wife of Milton
Davis; Margaret, wife of Milton Lee; Peter F. and Mollie C. Henry G. died at the
age of two years. In 1850, Mr. Johnson removed to his present farm and bought
100 acres, to which he has since added, until he is owner now of 540 acres; the
homestead contained 330 acres. He has given 200 acres to his sons, George and
Micajah. In politics, he was formerly a Whig, but now belongs to the Republican
party.

Additional Comments:
Bucks 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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