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JESSE B. JOHN, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 20; P. O. Dawn; was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, March 2, 1833; his father, Jacob B. John, was born in Franklin County, Penn., May 7, 1789, and married Eleanor Phillips, of the same county; she was born June 2, 1791; in the spring of 1810, moved to Montgomery County, Ohio; he served in the war of 1812, and was honorably discharged; afterward served two years as Captain of militia company; moved to Darke County in 1837; there he served two years as Township Trustee, and was Justice of the Peace six years; he died Feb. 19, 1868, and she died June 28, 1871, in this township; the following extract from an obituary was published on the demise of Mrs. Elenor John, relict of David John, the grandmother and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, at her decease, June 22, 1848, aged 81 years 4 months and 12 days: “She was the second of a family of eight children of the Rev. Joseph Powell (Baptist), settled in Bedford County, Penn., being the only clergyman in those parts then; solemnized 845 marriages up to 1804, the time of his death; on the 25th of January, 1785, she married David John, of Little Cove, Franklin Co., Penn., and became the mother of thirteen children; in the spring of 1810, they emigrated to Montgomery County, Ohio, where she died; her husband died Nov. 10, 1812, leaving her in a new country, with the charge of a large family, to encounter the privations of such a situation as she best could; but being a woman hale and industrious and with a confiding trust in God, she was enabled to bring up her family respectably and to see them settled in life; at the time of her death her children numbered thirteen, her grandchildren seventy-one, her great-grandchildren thirty-seven, making her descendants 121.” Jesse B. John, with his parents, moved to Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1810, and to Darke County in 1837; he was raised a farmer and has always followed the business; he has been Township Trustee, Supervisor, and eight years School Director. He married Abbie J. Kaylor Oct. 4, 1860; she was born April 29, 1835, in Logan County, Ohio; her father, Reuben Kaylor, was born Oct. 31, 1805, in Rockingham County, Va., and married Elizabeth Warvel; she was born June 19, 1807, and died March 25, 1876, in Bellefontaine, Logan Co., Ohio, where he now resides. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse B. John have three children, viz., Bowen Wesley, born Aug. 4, 1861; Lillie Dale, June 29, 1864; and Willie Barnett, Sept. 3, 1868. Mr. John owns a farm of 80 acres, the old homestead; his mother died with cancer after long and terrible suffering.