Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - O. Jewett
O. JEWETT
O.
Jewett, a farmer near Pharisburg, was horn in Vermont August 14, 1812 ;
parents were Elam and Lucy (Rice) Jewett, natives of Vermont, of
English descent, who emigrated to Franklin County, Ohio, in 1814. Our
subject was educated in the common schools of Ohio and received his
youthful training on the farm. He followed blacksmithing for about ten
years since 1848, and has resided on the farm for twenty four years. He
has been twice married : by his first wife. Catharine, whom he married
September 28, 1834. he had six children, of whom one only survives.
viz., Catharine, wife of Daniel Moren, of Vermont. On March 24, 1850,
he married Johanna, daughter of William and Mary Barcus, and a native
or Coshocton County Ohio, where she was born June 7, 1831. The family
now consists of the following children: Emily, Lucy, T. P., Minnie,
Alice A. and Charles O. Two sons were lost in the war of the rebellion.
Mr. Jewett owns eighty acres of land, on which he resides. He is a
member of the Masonic fraternity, with which he has been connected
thirty five years; a Republican in politics and a member of the
Universalist Church. He has acted as School Director and for six or
seven years as Justice of the Peace.