JOSEPH J. GOLDSMITH

    Joseph J. Goldsmith, a farmer, was born July 1, 1828, in Franklin County, Ohio.  His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Goldsmith, his father a native of Kentucky and his mother of Ireland.  When two years of age, with her parents, his mother emigrated to America and settled in Pennsylvania, where she married a Mr. Chambers, by whom she had two children, both of them now deceased, and with him she came to Franklin County, where he died.  She here married, after the decease of Mr. Chambers, Thomas Goldsmith, father of our subject.  To them were born seven children, five of whom are now living. Thomas Goldsmith was born in Kentucky, and, when a young man, with his parents went to Virginia.  He came to Franklin County a short time prior to the breaking out of the war of 1812.  Our subject was reared in Franklin County, where, in August 1848, he married Miss Eliza A. Thompson, daughter of William Thompson, a native of Scotland, and Susannah Thompson.  This union has been blessed with six children, two of whom are now living, viz.: William C. and Oliver H.  In the fall of 1853, he came to Union County, and, after living in different parts of which, he finally, in the spring of 1881, settled in the southern portion of Jackson Township.  He has served as Treasurer of York Township and Trustee of Claibourne Township.  He is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church and of the I. O. O. F. lodge, and owns fifty-one Acres of land.