J. P. HATHAWAY from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 9 December 2004

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Turtlecreek Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)

Page
745

J. P. HATHAWAY grocer, Lebanon, was born near the village of Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, February 22, 1819. He was one of a family of eleven children born to John W. and Polly (Phillips) Hathaway. His father emigrated to Ohio and settled on a farm near Lebanon. He died at the advanced age of 96 years. His mother was a daughter of Maj. Phillips, of the war of 1812. Of their eleven children, three boys and three girls reached their majority and all but two married in Warren County, where they now live. Our subject received his education in Warren County, and at the age of 19 years he commenced learning the carpenter trade, which he followed extensively fifteen years, employing journeymen part of the time. On the 12th of October, 1846, he married Miss Elizabeth Ann Gustin, a native of Clear Creek Township, by whom he had four children, viz., Emma, Agnes, Florence and William. In 1853, Mr. Hathaway opened a grocery in Lebanon, and since that time has been identified with that branch of industry in the village. In 1867, he became afflicted with a partial blindness, caused by the formation of a cataract over the eyes, and two years later he became almost entirely blind under an operation performed by eminent opticians of Cincinnati. He has borne his great affliction, and the buffering incident thereto, with a fortitude surprising in one of his years. He retains possession of his business and, with his long experience and natural shrewdness, is enabled with the help of his clerks, to conduct it very successfully. He is a stanch Democrat and takes an active interest in the affairs of his party.


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