Henry John Jarvis
Henry John Jarvis, infirmary director in Delaware County and a prominent citizen of Brown Township, where he owns a farm of 70 acres, was born in Orange Township, Delaware County, Ohio, March 6, 1854, and is a son of Henry J. and Caroline K. (Knapp) Jarvis.
Henry J. Jarvis, father of Henry John, was born in England and was 17 years of age when he came with his parents to Delaware County. The rest of the family, with the exception of Henry J., went West shortly after coming here. H. J. was the railroad agent and justice of the peace of Orange. The Jarvises were among the early settlers, as were also the Knapps, the latter being identified with the affairs of Liberty Township, where many of the name may yet be found. In early manhood, Henry J. Jarvis married Caroline K. Knapp, who still survives, aged 82 years. They had three children: Henry John; Grace, who married David Douglas, and died at Iberia, Morrow County, Ohio; and a child died in infancy. During the Civil War, Henry J. Jarvis went into the service as first lieutenant of Company G, Ninety-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died soon after leaving Delaware County, at Memphis, Tennessee. His remains were returned to his home and were laid to rest in the Liberty Cemetery, in Liberty Township.
Shortly after the close of the Civil War, Henry John Jarvis went to Wisconsin, where he remained nine months, but he was mainly reared by his mother and attended the district schools in Brown and Liberty Townships. For the past nine years he has lived on his present farm, devoting the larger part of bis attention to raising first-class road horses. He does a great deal of training also, both of his own colts and those of other raisers of horses in this section.
On November 12. 1884, Mr. Jarvis married to Amanda Moore, who is a daughter of the late Levi Moore, of Brown Township. Mrs. Moore still survives. Mr. Jarvis is a stanch Republican and he has been active in politics for many years. For a long period he has served as a member of the School Board and in the fall of 1904 was elected an infirmary director and is now serving in his fourth year as such. He is a member of Williams Lodge, No. 550, Knights of Pythias, at Kilbourn.
From 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Edited and compiled by James R. Lytle, Delaware, Ohio, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908