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Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (King)
Date: 19 Nov 2005 05:25:40 -0000


Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....King, John B. 1839 -
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

JOHN B. KING, farmer, P. O. Larue, was born January 28, 1839, in Marion County,
this State, and is the son of George and Hessa King, both natives of Delaware.
His mother was of English descent and came to this State in 1802; his father, of
Irish and Scotch lineage, emigrated to Ohio in 1813. Mr. King has been a
resident of this county for five years, following farming for his occupation,
and is also engaged in stock-raising. He owns a fine farm of 148 acres of land
in Dudley Township. He was married to Anna E. Mouser, born in 1842 in Marion
County, this State, the daughter of I. B. and Mary Mouser, the former of German,
the latter of Scotch descent. By this union there are two children, Zoe, born
May 8, 1871, and Clyde, born December 14, 1873. Mr. King and wife are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the 21st of October, 1861, he enlisted in the
Sixty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company D, under Capt. Smith, and was
discharged December 11, 1864. He participated in the following battles: Battle
of Shiloh. April 6 and 7, 1862; Stone River, December 31, 1862; Chickamauga,
Ga., September 19 and 20, 1863; Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863; Rocky Face.
Tenn., May 9, 1864: Resaca, Ga., June 13 and 14, 1864; New Hope, May 25, 1864;
Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864; Atlanta, July 22, 1864; Jonesboro, September 3,
1864; and Franklin, November 30, 1864. Mr. King is a member of the Grange, No.
921, at Larue; has filled the office of Township Trustee one term; is filling
the office of Justice of the Peace; in politics is a Republican, and is one of
the prosperous farmers of Dudley Township. He also served two terms as Justice
of the Peace in Marion County.

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Dudley Township

Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
1883

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