BENJAMIN TINKHAM

    Benjamin Tinkham was born in Connecticut June 23, 1795. and came to Ohio about 1817, stopping for a time in Franklin County.  A year or two later, he removed to this count , and he and his brother Noah took the contract for making the brick and building for Samuel Robinson the first brick house in Union County.  While thus engaged, Benjamin became acquainted with and courted Jane Slone, a girl who ]aid come from York County, Penn., with the Robinsons.  He married her February 19, 1820, and immediately thereafter he purchased a little place of about. fifty acres in Survey 6,602, on the plains; removed to it and remained there till his death, March 29, 1880, aged -early eighty-five years.  His wife died about 1876, having borne him two sons and two daughters.  After her death, he resided at the home of his daughter, Mrs. James McCloud.  He was a man of more than ordinary enterprise, and his mind ran largely to the invention of machinery, perpetual motion, etc.  He wrote his own funeral sermon, which was read at his funeral.