Muskingum County OHIO Biographies.....J. B.  Denison December 1 1815 - 
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Mary Hitchcock Mary_hitchcock@hotmail.com  December 27, 2005, 9:22 am

Author: The History of Johnson County Iowa 1836-1882, p.808.

J. B. Denison, farmer, post-office North Liberty; the oldest resident of this 
township; was born Dec. 1, 1815, in Muskingdon County OH. His parents, Gerdon 
and Etherlinda Denison, were natives of Massachusetts. They moved to Ohio where 
J.B. was born and raised on a farm. At the age of twenty-three he left Ohio to 
come to Illinois, where he had two brothers. [see History.] He was then a 
single man. After arriving here he entered 320 acres of land in section one, 
where he still resides. He boarded with his brother G.S., and followed braking 
prairie for a number of years, renting his farm. On the 10th day of April, 
1853, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Diggins of this county, formerly from 
PA. To them were born five children, four living: Mariah, Julia A., Matilda P. 
and David Ely. His wife died Nov. 5, 1875. By his industry, he has accumulated 
considerable property; he owns 540 acres of land. He has long been a member of 
the M.W. Church, a Republican in politics, and temperance man in every sense of 
the term. Source: The History of Johnson County Iowa 1836-1882, p.808.



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