BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Pages 518-519.


JOHN LINDER, a respected resident of Belmont, was born in Muskingum
county, Ohio, January 28, 1820, the son of George and Margaret
(Shepherd) Linder, early settlers of that county. His father was born
in Westmoreland county, Penn., in 1788, and came to Muskinggum county
in 1812. He and his brother James each bought 320 acres of land, and
about three years later, George Linder was married and made his home
in a little log cabin in which the subject of this mention was born.
The father lived there several years and then removed to Guernsey
county, in 1832, whence in 1836, he came to Goshen township. Belmont
county (where he resided ten years, and then removed to Richland
township, Belmont county), where he bought a farm of 182 acres, and
resided there until his death, in 1873. His wife died some years
before, being then in her seventy-fourth year. They had eight
children, of whom three are living: Artemisia, who married Benjamin
Watkins, of Guernsey county, and now resides on the homestead in
Richland township; Kesiah, who lives with the latter; and Jacob.
Jacob was married in 1868, to Rosanna Egy, who was born in this
county in 1834, of parents who immigrated from Pennsylvania, and they
have one daughter, Mary. Jacob Linder began his career by teaching
school, and two years later, began clerking in a general store at
St. Clairsville, and remained there fifteen years, after which, he
dealt in stock for several years, and then in 1869, bought a farm, on
which he resided four years. He then removed to Belmont, but in 1885,
bought his present farm of eighty acres, upon which he has a pleasant
and comfortable home. He also owns property in Belmont, where he still
resides. His wife and daughter are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church.