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- Arthur W. Jay was born in Mill township, Grant county, on February
3, 1856, and he is a son of Denny and Anna (Cogshell) Jay. The father
was born on a farm in Miami county, Ohio, while the mother is a native
daughter of Indiana, born in Wayne county, and coming with her parents
as an infant to Grant county, making the journey in her mother's arms
on horseback. The father was a boy of six years when his parents
migrated to Grant county, Indiana, from Ohio, and thus the family are
entitled to especial consideration as pioneers of the most distinctive
order. These children grew to young manhood and womanhood and
were married while yet young in years. They were people of the
staunchest integrity, their religious faith being that of the Friends, or
Quakers, and the tenor of their daily lives being maintained well up to
the standard set by these vigorous Puritan people. They had a family
of five children, named as follows: Riley J. is a resident of Fairmount;
Eva is the wife of Oliver Davis, of Center township; Arthur W., the
third born, is the subject of this review; Gulie is the wife of Bennett
Shugart of Franklin township; and Harvey J., who lives in Mill town
ship, Grant county.
Arthur W. Jay was reared in Mill and Liberty townships and his
education was gained in the district schools, and in Amboy Academy
and Earlham College. He was fitted for the teaching profession and took
up that work in Grant county when he had finished his college training,
and had he elected to carry the work forward, it is highly probable that
he would have made a distinctive success therein, for he displayed the
possession of no little talent along those lines. The call of the soil,
however, was stronger than he cared to resist and he in time turned his
mind and energies to the development and maintenance of a farm, in
which enterprise he has since continued with a generous measure of
success.
Mr. Jay married Flora Clark, a daughter of Simon and Julia (Not
Mr. Jay married Flora Clark, a daughter of Simon and Julia (Not
tingham) Clark, the marriage occurring on October 9, 1879. Mrs. Jay
was reared in Grant county, and here educated, and like her husband,
has a wide acquaintance hereabouts.. They went housekeeping in Mill
township, and the house is still standing where they initiated their
wedded careers. Mr. Jay then was the owner of a small place of about
fifty acres, but his holdings have increased very materially since that
time.
Two children were born to them : Carl S. J., a student in the Normal
College at South Marion, who is married to Nellie Warrenberg, and has
one child ; and Iona J., who is a graduate of the Marion Normal College
and is the wife of Professor Harry L. Foreman, of Bloomington, Indiana.
Prof. Foreman is a graduate of the state University, with the degree of
A. B., and is one of the successful and rising educators of the state.
The family are members of the Friends' Church, Mr. Jay being an
elder for years. Politically, he gives his material and moral support to
the Prohibition party, and his citizenship is one of the highest order,
calculated to wield an influence of the most genuine and praiseworthy
nature.
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