Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - John Liggett
JOHN LIGGETT
John Liggett, a farmer near
New California. The subject of this sketch was born in Warren County,
Ohio, November 12, 1813. He is a son of John and Mary (McCormick)
Liggett, and a grandson of William Liggett, a Revolutionary soldier.
The parents were married in Rockbridge County, Va., and about 1806-7
removed to Rose County, Ohio; thence to Warren County; and in 1825, to
Greene County, where Mr. Liggett died March 19, 1862, and Mrs. L.
December 6, 1852. Mr. Liggett, our subject, is the third son and fourth
child of nine children. He spent his early life on a farm near Xenia,
Ohio, where he resided till 1839, when he came to Union County. He
purchased 189 acres of his present farm. All of it was in its timbered
state, and in 1841 he cleared a site and erected a log house. After his
marriage, he removed on his new farm, which he cleared and improved.
Mr. Liggett has devoted many years of bard labor in making for himself
and family a competence; and his industry has been well rewarded. His
farm now contains 222 acres of well improved and highly cultivated
land, all of which is the fruit of his own exertions. His avocation has
always been that of farming and stock-raising, and he has enjoyed
reasonable success. November 12, 1841, he was married to Miss Mary
Lactate, a daughter of Josiah and Nancy (Carman) Leconte. Mrs. Liggett,
a native of Greene County, Ohio, was born November 24, 1819. Of seven
children born to this union, five are living, viz. : Lovina, wife of I.
G. Stall, of Union City, Ind. ; Robert A., Clerk of Wayne County,
Mich.; William M., Treasurer of Union County; John W. and Edward G.;
Esma L. and Charlie F., are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Liggett are members
of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. L., although not an office
aspirant, served on the Board of Trustees of Jerome Township for ten
years. Politically, he is a Republican.