John W. Fridley
John W. Fridley, son of Lewis and Susannah Fridley, was born in Pickaway County, O., Feb. 14, 1822, where his boyhood days were spent on a farm. In the spring of 1847 he came to Shelby County and made his home with his brother George Fridley, in Franklin Township. About three years prior to his coming to this county, or in 1844, he purchased the S. E. quarter of section 23, Dinsmore Township. During the summer of 1847 be erected a dwelling on his land, and made some other improvements. October 10, 1847, he married Miss Martha J., daughter of Adam and Sarah Young. Miss Young was born in Pickaway County, O., Sept. 8, 1824, and came to this county with her parents in 1830 or ’31. Mr. and Mrs. Fridley settled on his land in Dinsmore Township, on which they have since resided. They reared a family of five children, viz., Adam, Sarah L., Jason B. F., John W. A., and Eliza L. Mr. Fridley has made farming his principal vocation, and now owns a good farm of one hundred aiid sixty acres, which he is conducting with success.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883