JAMES RITTENHOUSE

    James Rittenhouse, a farmer, eldest son of Samuel T. and Elizabeth (Nichols) Rittenhouse, was born in Ross County, Ohio, July 30, 1842.  When twelve years of age, his parents removed to Union County, where he was reared to manhood. August 8, 1862, he enlisted in Company, Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but was immediately transferred to Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment.  He served in the army of the Tennessee, and participated in the following engagements: Perryville, Franklin, Triune, Chickamauga, where he was taken sick with typhoid fever.  He was confined in the hospitals at Nashville and Louisville.  After his recovery, he joined his regiment at Atlanta, Ga., and wag taken down with the small-pox, and after he recovered from this malady he was employed as chief clerk and general Ward Master till his discharge at camp Chase, Ohio, June 27, 1865.  November 2, 1865, he was married to Mary A., daughter of John and Lucinda Guy, and a native of Delaware County, where she was born October 9, 1844; of six children born to this marriage, the following are living: Lucinda E., Mary E., John T., Edgar M. and Clara.  Lester A. died aged six months and twenty-one days.  Mr. Rittenhouse owns a farm of 146 acres of land and is engaged in agriculture and stock-raising.  He and wife are members of the Baptist Church.  He is connected with the I. O. O. F., Grange and G. A. R.  He is a member of the Board of Township Trustees, and in politics a Republican.