A. J. FERGUSON
A. J. Ferguson, a farmer, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., June 17, 1827, and is a son of William and Anna (Robbins) Ferguson. He was born in Seatland and she in New Jersey; he died in Pennsylvania in 1844. The widow with her eldest son, Wesley, came to this county in 1855; she died May 18, 1862. Our subject purchased his present estate in 1858. January 1, 1851, he was married to Eleanor, daughter of John and Margaret Jolly, who has borne him eight children, six of whom are living-Elton W., Andrew, McClellan, Mertie, Hattie M. and Nettie. April 25, 1861, Mr. Ferguson enlisted in Company F, Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry three months' service; he reenlisted November 21, 1861, in Company K, Fifty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served three years and one month. He passed through many of the hard-fought battles of the war, twenty-three in number; he was promoted February 16, 1862, to Second Lieutenant, and again to the First Lieutenancy after the battle of Shiloh, and was made Captain of Company C after the battle of Jonesboro. He has served in the capacity of Township Clerk for nearly twenty years, and assessed the township in 1880, and the same year took the census of Darby Township. In 1870, he was a land appraiser; he is also a member of the order of Free and Accepted Masons, and also of the Grand Army of the Republic, of which latter he is a Vice Commandant.