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HON. JOHN F. GAMES, farmer, P. O. Hiett. Probably no man now living in Huntington Township is more favorably known than the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is a native of the township, in which he was born in the year 1810. His parents, J. W. and Sarah (Fryer) Games, were born in Jefferson County, Va., and in the year 1807 came overland with team and wagon to this township, in which they made permanent a home. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, having enlisted in the “general call,” and did his country service in the famous Lake expedition. Six children were born to them, of whom only John F. survives. The deceased were William, Benjamin, Gideon, Mary and Ruth. Mrs. Games died in 1840, aged fifty years. Mr. Games was again married to Sarah Haines, by whom he had two children, viz., Josephine and William A.; the latter deceased. Mr. Games was a zealous Christian gentleman, and an acceptable member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He departed this life in 1856, aged seventy years. Our subject received a good, practical education in the subscription schools which were in vogue in his boyhood. By applying his mind assiduously, he qualified himself to teach, a profession he followed irregularly for ten years, and worn the reputation of being an excellent instructor. In 1831, he was married to Mary A., the daughter of Absalom Gardner, of Highland County, Ohio, by whom he had three children, two of whom are living Evaline and William B.; Absalom (deceased). Mrs. Games died in 1836, at the age of twenty-five years. He married for his second wife Amanda, the daughter of D. W. Early. To them eleven children were born, seven of whom are living — Sarah E., David W., John W., Euphemia A., Martha F., Maria P. and Andrew E.; the deceased were — Cornelia C., Mary E., Charles F. and Gideon G. Mr. Games owns an excellent farm of 225 acres, which is well improved, making a most desirable home in which to pass the remaining years of a busy and well spent life. His qualifications are such as denote the highest and purest principles of exalted manhood; and in recognition of his worth and sterling qualities, the citizens of his county chose him to represent the interest of the county in the Legislature, in which honorable body he served during the legislative years of 1856 and 1857. In local offices of the township, he has been fully identified, having served as Justice of the Peace nine years, and a Trustee one year. He has been religiously inclined from his boyhood, and night and morning at the family altar he leads in prayer and devotional exercises. In the Methodist Episcopal Church he has been a member a long series of years, during which he has reared a large family conformably to the requirements of that church body. He is a man of quick and keen perceptions, with such strong natural forces that only give formation to an irreproachable character. As a father he is kind and indulgent, and as a husband affectionate forbearing and considerate; generous to a fault, giving freely from his means at all times to promote the best interests of the community, whether in church, educational or civil affairs. Scrupulously just in all his dealings, untiring in his efforts to attain success himself and justice to his fellow-men, and yet, withal, he is modest and unassuming in his general deportment.