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JOHN R. STRATTON, farmer; P. O. Casstown; born in Miami Co., Ohio, on the farm upon which he now resides, Nov. 27, 1831; is a son of Orange and Isabella (Long) Stratton, he being born in Pennsylvania and she in Virginia. The grandparents on the father’s side were born in Connecticut, on the mother’s side in Ireland, coming to this country with their parents when about 10 years of age; the grandparents on the father’s side came to Ohio and located in Hamilton Co. in about 1820, where they lived and died; on the mother’s side they came and located in Miami Co. in about 1830. Orange and Isabella, the parents, located first in Hamilton Co., Ohio, where they lived about ten years, going thence to Miami Co., and locating upon the farm now owned by John; they had nine children, five of whom are living, viz., John R., James H., De Witt Clinton, Huldah M; (now Mrs. John E. Walker) and Martha H. Mr. Stratton, our subject, remained with his parents till 17 years of age, when he went to Cincinnati, into Roberts & Moffatt’s dry-goods establishment, where he clerked for four years, then went to New Orleans, clerking in a wholesale grocery two years; removing to St. Louis, he clerked two years; arriving at Davenport, Iowa, he clerked six years; thence going twenty miles into the country, he rented a farm, where he remained two years. In August, 1862, he, enlisted in the 20th Iowa V. I, and served through the war of the rebellion; was in the battle of Vicksburg, when that place was taken, and at the taking of Ft. Morgan, and other engagements; at the close of the war he received an honorable discharge, and returned home; he then located upon the home place with his parents. He was united in marriage, Dec. 13, 1866, with Jennie A. Walker, daughter of John and Margaret Walker, who were natives of Pennsylvania, and came to this county about 1850; they were the parents of six children, of whom three are now living, viz., Josiah, John and Jennie A. Mr. Stratton and wife by this union have had four children, viz., Othniel (dying in infancy), Eugene Clifford, Curtis W. and Susan Viola; they remained with their parents till their death, the father dying Oct. 1, 1875, and the mother April 4, 1879, since which time John has farmed the place; he has 80 acres of good land, with comfortable buildings, constituting a pleasant farmer’s residence. Politically, Mr. Stratton is a Republican; religiously, he is a Presbyterian.