Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Job G. Beardsley JOB G. BEARDSLEY
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    Job G. Beardsley, a farmer, was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., September 16, 1810. He is a son of William and Eunice (Gardner) Beardsley, natives of Connecticut.  His father was a shoe-maker by trade, but spent most of his life farming.  He came to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Licking County, removing from there to Knox County.  He died at the age of eighty-two years; his wife lived to reach ninety years of age.  Our subject remained with his parents in Knox County until eighteen years of age, when he began learning the black smith's trade, at which he worked ten years in Licking County.  In 1843, he began farming, and has since followed that honorable avocation, until recently, when he retired from active life.  In 1852, he came to Claibourne Township, and now owns a farm of 106 acres in this township.   He was married in Knox County, in 1834, to Patience Webster, a native of New York, by whom he had ten children, of whom six reached their majority and two now survive, viz: Mary, wife of Isaac Cowgill, and James W. Mrs. Beardsley died August 25, 1870, and in 1871 Mr. Beardsley married Nancy (Bell) Sifritt, widow of Andrew Sifritt, who at the time of their marriage had two children, Lorenzo and Margaret.  Mrs. and Mrs. Beardsley are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He is a prominent Republican in politics.  He had one son, William Webster, who enlisted in 1862, in the Second Ohio Infantry, and had his right leg shot off at the second battle of Bull Run, which resulted in his death two years later.