Notes for John ASHBY

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Notes for John ASHBY

1850 census:
name: John Ashby
event: Census
event date: 1850
event place: Harrison, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
gender: Male
age: 40
marital status:
race (original):
race (standardized):
birthplace: Iowa
estimated birth year: 1810
dwelling house number: 882
family number: 882
line number: 24
nara publication number: M432
nara roll number: 686
film number: 444679
digital folder number: 004204443
image number: 00179
Household Gender Age Birthplace
John Ashby M 40 Iowa
Elizabeth Ashby F 33 Ohio
Martin Ashby M 13 Ohio
Oliver Ashby M 10 Ohio
George Ashby M 6 Ohio
Allace Ashby F 3 Ohio
Ida Ashby F 0 Ohio
Kizzia Ashby F 76 Virginia
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History of Hamilton County Ohio
pages 312-319
p. 313
John ASHBY was born in the territory of Indiana, in 1810, June 2nd. Fourteen years after that date he went to Cincinnati, Ohio. When he came to Ohio he learned the tanher's and currier's trade, but abandoned it afterward, and, coming to Harrison,
entered into partnership with his brother, Hamilton, for the purpose of trading in dry goods. In 1843 he was appointed postmaster of
p. 314
Harrison, which position he kept for seven years. In 1851 he was engaged by William & Samuel FERRIS to superintend their store, where he remained four years. One term he served as mayor of Harrison, and at several different times he has been elected to
the office of justice of the peace, which office he is holding at the present time. He has always been a Democrat in politics. His first wife, Elizabeth TOOKER was born in 1818, married in 1836, and died in 1854. She had five children: Martin V. B.,
Olin H. P., George M. D. (married to Clara ZEUMER), Alice, and Ida. His second wife was Phoebe C. ZEUMER, who died in August of 1879, at the age of fifty-eight.
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Had step-daughter Clara Znmer, age 38, living in family 1870/80, daughter of
his second wife Phebe.

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