John HERRON

                   1. Joseph A HERRON
    " A prominent and well known oil merchant in Brazil, has been identified with the business interests of this city for a number of years, first owning and residing on property in the northern part of the city. After five years there he sold and bought a house and lot at 24 West Logan street and began dealing in fire insurance, in which line he continued for a year and a half. On the 1st of January, 1884, he embarked in business as a retail oil merchant, delivering to customers in Brazil and vicinity, and he is now at the head of a large and remunerative business.
      Mr. Herron was born in Perry township, Clay county, April 16, 1861. His father, James Herron, was born in Lancaster county, Penn sylvania, March 8, 1798, a son of John and Rebecca (Clark) Herron,
both of whom were born in Ireland. In Ohio, in 1833, James Herron was united in marriage to Margaret L. Archerd, who was born in Clermont county, that state, in June, 1814, a daughter of, John and Mary (McMichael) Archerd, natives respectively of England and of Scotland, In 1838 Mr. Herron came with his young wife via the Ohio and Wabash rivers to Terre Haute, Indiana, entering two hundred acres of timber land from the government in Perry township, which he partially cleared and improved. In 1851 he sold his farm there and bought one hundred and fifty acres in Posey township, four miles west of Brazil, where he spent the remainder of his life and died on the 10th of September, 1869. In 1901 Mrs. Herron sold the farm and moved to Brazil, where she died February 8, 1908. Of their family of eleven children eight are now living, three sons and five daughters, seven of whom are
living in this vicinity, and the eldest son is in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
      Joseph A. Herron spent his boyhood days on the homestead, assisting his mother with the work of the farm until his marriage, which occurred on the 10th of July, 1881, Carrie Cook becoming his wife.
She was born in Clearmont county, Ohio, a daughter of William and Sophia (Enlows) Cook, natives of Baltimore, Maryland, and a granddaughter of Absalom Cook, also of that state, and of----, and
Elizabeth (Petticourt) Enlows, of Irish parentage. Mr. Herron votes with the Republican party and is a member of the Presbyterian church." Biography from History of Clay Co., Indiana, Vol. II, Author: William Travis, publ. 1909 (Cathy Bird took this from the actual book located in the FHL in Salt Lake City)


2. This was received from William Archerd through an e-mail.  Mr. Archerd's family file is located at Ancestral World Tree, Ancestry.com which was accessed on 7 apr 2003.

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Name: James HERRON  ·  Given Name: James  ·  Surname: HERRON  ·  Sex: M  ·  _UID: ECC64579D39345448CC1C5E4D87EBA258ABC  ·  Change Date: 5 Feb 2003  ·

Note:  The 1820 census for Clermont County does not include any Herron's.  "Mr. Herron (referring to Joseph A. Herron) was born in Perry township, Clay county, April 16, 1861. His father, James Herron, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1798, a son of John and Rebecca (Clark) Herron, both of whom were born in Ireland. In Ohio, in 1833, James Herron was united in marriage to Margaret L. Archerd, who was born in Clearmont county, that state, in June, 1814, a daughter of John and Mary (McMichael) Archerd, natives respectively of England and of Scotland. In 1838 Mr. Herron came with his young wife via the Ohio and Wabash rivers to Terre haute, Indiana, entering two hundred acres of timber land from the government in Perry township, which he partially cleared and improved. In 1851 he sold his farm there and bought one hundred and fifty acres in Posey township, four miles west of Brazil, where he spent the remainder of his life and died on the 10th of September, 1869. In 1901 Mrs. Herron sold the farm and moved to Brazil, where she died February 8, 1908. . . ." [Excerpt from 1884 Clay& Vigo County History]

James and William Herron bought land in Clermont County, Ohio in 1831, 1834 and 1837, according to Marsha Bovey's research.

Brother William Herron was from North Carolina at one time [was he the brother in the army through the war of 1812?] and there is a suggestion that he came to Perry Township, Clay County directly from N.C., but it is more likely that he came from N.C. to Clermont County, Ohio and then out to Perry Township with James and his family. There is also a sister, Rebecca Permelia Herron [Mrs. Moses Rardin; marriage in Clermont County in 1833], living in Perry Township in 1850 (per census).  Descendent Delmar Davis believed that the Herron brothers reached Clermont County before 1820 (the census does not bear this out) and that they were involved with the Ohio Star newspaper in New Richmond, even though the Everts history of Clermont County identifies one of the brothers who worked on the paper as Joseph Herron, newspaperman and school teacher. [Copies of the Ohio Star were "found" in the 1980's by Delmar Davis, amongs the records of a descendent, Clifford Herron; there is a suggestion that our James was a newspaperman. He probably did this part time, just like his brother Joseph did.] Our James was definitely a farmer much of his life.

A news clipping from Clay County, Indiana, from the time of his wife's death in 1908, reads: "Early Settlers --- Mrs. Herron was the widow of James Herron. They came to this county from Ohio in 1838, arriving in Terre Haute by boat. They preempted a quarter section of land near Cory and Mr. Herron walked all the way to Vincennes to enter his land with the land office there. [Then a list of the surviving children]"

wfa 10282001 ·  Birth: 8 MAR 1798 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania  ·  Death: 10 SEP 1869 in Posey Township, Clay County, Indiana  ·  Burial: Cottage Hill Cem., Clay County, Indiana

Father: John HERRON b: in Scotland
Mother: Rebecca CLARKE b: in Ulster [Ireland]

Marriage 1 Margaret Lyon ARCHERD
b: 26 JUN 1814 in Monroe Township, Clermont County, Ohio
Married: 1 OCT 1833 in Clermont County, Ohio

Children
    1. William HERRON  b: 1836 in Clermont County, Ohio
    2. Mary E. HERRON  b: 26 JAN 1838 in Clermont County, Ohio
    3. John W. HERRON b: 1840 in Perry Township, Clay County, Indiana
    4. James George HERRON  b: 22 MAY 1842 in Perry Township, Clay County, Indiana
    5. Rebecca Jane HERRON  b: 11 JUN 1846 in Perry Township, Clay County, Indiana
    6. Margaret Lucy HERRON  b: 11 APR 1850 in Perry Township, Clay County, Indiana
    7. Joseph A. HERRON b: 16 APR 1851 in Perry Township, Clay County, Indiana
    8. Anna Laura HERRON  b: 1855
    9. Elvira E. HERRON b: MAY 1859 in Clay County, Indiana

Sources:
1. Abbrev: Archerd Family 1976 Compilation Title: "The Archerd Family in the United States", a typed manuscript prepared by Roberta Elaine Witcraft [Lionberger] in about 1976, appears to be an update of the 1911 History of the Archerd Family, by John Thomas Archerd, of Eagle Grove, Iowa.

2. Abbrev: Clermont County [Ohio] Resources Title: History of Clermont Co., Ohio, 1795-1880, by Everts. Also 1913 History of Brown and Clermont Counties, by Byron Williams. Both available in LDS Cox Collection. Clermont County, Ohio probate and estate records - Court of Common Pleas. Clermont County, Ohio - Marriage records - indexes. Index to Monument Inscriptions Prior to 1900 from Cemeteries in Clermont County, Ohio. Clermont County Genealogical Society, First Families data. Craig's Laurel cemetery data. From 1790, when Hamilton County was formed, until the formation of Clermont County in 1800, the Clermont area was part of Anderson Township, Hamilton County." [Whitt, Clermont County, Ohio - 1870: Atlas and History, 1985] Ohio became a state in 1803, formed from the Northwest Territory. There is a "substitute census" covering various "facts" prior to 1820; this was prepared by local genealogists. Patricia R. Donaldson, a genealogical researcher from Georgetown, in Brown County, Ohio, conducted research for me in the early 1990's, and educated me about the resources available.