. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. mber17, 1793. four sons andtwo daughters wereborn, Jacob being thethird son. Johnson, hisfathers brother, is theonly uncle on this sidewho is living, and. outof a family of tenchildren, only one sonremains, who lives atSalem. jDrothers andsisters are: John,Thom-as C, Johnson, LucyP., Elizabeth P., G.,and is dead; John-son served as surgeonin the late war at Fort-ress Monroe in 1861;Savinia and Mary areboth dead. Jacob ob-tained his early educa-tion by attending theol
. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. mber17, 1793. four sons andtwo daughters wereborn, Jacob being thethird son. Johnson, hisfathers brother, is theonly uncle on this sidewho is living, and. outof a family of tenchildren, only one sonremains, who lives atSalem. jDrothers andsisters are: John,Thom-as C, Johnson, LucyP., Elizabeth P., G.,and is dead; John-son served as surgeonin the late war at Fort-ress Monroe in 1861;Savinia and Mary areboth dead. Jacob ob-tained his early educa-tion by attending theold district school fromtwo and one-half to fivemonths in the year. Atsixteen he left homewith ten dollars—sevenof which was givenhim by his father—andwent to Dorchester,Massachusetts, butwhat is now Boston,and labored for twoyears. By means thusaccumulated, he re-turned to New Hamp-shire, and attendedschool at Wolfboro—aselect school—and alsosoon after at a schoolat Merideth village, same stitL md1B38 he taught at Water village 1deth. After these two >eais at 1 irsonv Maine. In1 1839 at Meri-left for Bostonwith ten dollars again, and served as a clerk for three years atthe Elm Street house, Hanover and Broomfield. His employer,DanielChamberlain, offered to set him up in business, but on account of ill-health and a desire to see the west, he left Boston in 1843. and cameby rail to Albany. New York, and from there to Buffalo by canal, adistance of three hundred and sixty-nine miles; then to Cleveland by steamer; thence to Portsmouth by canal, and to Cincinnati by remained for three days in the city, and then crossed over in Ken-tucky, engaged to work for Colonel James Taylor three this time he resided at Locust Corner, Clermont county, with theexception of three years and six months, when he came to Sweet Wine,this county. While at the latter place he acted in the capacity ofschool te-acher for three years, and trafficked generally. Febr
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