Alexander J. HARPER

Father: John A. HARPER
Mother: Cynthia HARMON

Family 1: Jane HARPER
  1. Robert John HARPER
  2. Stella Cynthia HARPER
  3. Rice HARPER
  4. Ann HARPER 
                                                                  _James HARPER _________
                                            _John HARPER ________|_Janet "Jannet" LEWIS _
                   _Alexander HARPER ______|
                  |                        |                      _William MONTGOMERY ___
                  |                        |_Abigail MONTGOMERY _|_Mary AKEN ____________
 _John A. HARPER _|
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|                 |                         _Johan BARTHOLOMEW __|_______________________
|                 |_Elizabeth BARTHOLOMEW _|
|                                          |                      _Johan Theobald ENDT __
|                                          |_Dorothy ENDT _______|_Sibbilla STRATTON ____
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|--Alexander J. HARPER 
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|                                                                 _Nathaniel HARMON _____
|                                           _Nathaniel HARMON ___|_Esther AUSTIN ________
|                  _Anan HARMON ___________|
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|                 |                        |_Elizabeth BRIDGMAN _|_______________________
|_Cynthia HARMON _|
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                  |                         _____________________|_______________________
                  |_Sarah RAWSON __________|
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Household: 1880 US Federal Census Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mothe r's Birthplace A.J. HARPER Self M Male W 50 OH Farmer NY MA Jane HARPER Wife M Female W 47 OH Keeping House NY NY Robert HARPER Son M Male W 26 OH Clerk In Bank OH OH Stella HARPER Dau S Female W 23 OH OH OH Rice HARPER Son S Male W 20 OH OH OH Ann HARPER Dau Female W 16 OH OH OH Ann AUSTIN Other W Female W 59 OH OH OH Harper AUSTIN Other S Male W 38 OH Fire Ins. Agent OH OH Source Information: Census Place Harpersfield, Ashtabula, Ohio Family History Library Film 1254992 NA Film Number T9-0992 Page Number 443B Alexander J. Harper Alexander J. Harper, who has for many years been prominently identified with the interests o f Harpersfield township, is a native of Perry township, Lake county, Ohio, born September 28 , 1829. His parents were John A. and Cynthia (Harmon) Harper; the father was born March 30, 1 774, at Harpersfield, New York, a son of Alexander Harper, who was born in Middleton, Connect icut, in 1744; the latter served as a Colonel in the war of the Revolution. He was united i n marriage January 30, 1771, to Elizabeth Bartholomew, who was born February 13, 1749, at Bet hlehem, Huntington county, New Jersey. John A. Harper was the eldest son of a family of eigh t children; he came with his parents to Ohio in 1798, making the journey from Buffalo to Madi son township in a sail boat; they settled on a section of land ceded Mr. Harper by the Govern ment for losses sustained by him during the Revolutionary war. He chose the extreme northwes t section of the township of Harpersfield. John A. was given as his portion what is now know n as the Stephen Warner farm. He was first married to Miss Minor, and they reared a family o f nine children, named as follows: Rice, Juliann, Aaron, Lucia, Orrin, Adeline, Caroline, Ale xander and Lorain. His second marriage was to Cynthia Harmon, April 5, 1824, and they had on e child, Alexander J. John A. Harper was one of the builders of the Madison dock on Lake Eri e and was a heavy loser by the contract. He died when Alexander J. was a lad of eleven years ; the youth and his mother went, after this sad event, to Rochester, New York, where they res ided for five years. Thence they went to Sandusky, Ohio, where he was in school for a perio d of two years. His first business venture was in the grocery trade just before the cholera scourge which swe pt the country. He was afterward in the County Clerk's office for a term of six years; then h e was employed as a clerk in the Recorder's office. At the death of this official, about on e year after entering the office, he was appointed to serve the unexpired term. In 1857 he ca me to Harpersfield and took up agricultural pursuits; he settled on the farm of Colonel Rober t Harper, which is now his home. Mr. Harper was married April 6, 1853, to Miss Jane Harper, a daughter of Colonel Robert and P olly (Hendry) Harper. Colonel Harper was for several years a member of the State Legislatur e from Ashtabula county, making the journey to Columbus on horseback. He was one of the firs t lawyers in this part of the State, and was a man of good ability and a soldier in the war o f 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Harper are the parents of four children: Robert John was bo rn April 15, 1854, and married Miss Augusta Girard, January 1, 1877; they have five children : Willie, born March 15, 1878, died in infancy; Henry Alexander was born March 12, 1879; Mar y Adda, January 7, 1882; Julia Ann, July 30, 1884, and Susannah, February 3, 1886; the secon d chid of our subject, Stella Cynthia was born August 5, 1856; Rice was born May 12, 1860; h e married Theresa Mary Fredericks, of Duluth, Minnesota, August 19, 1890, and has one child , William A., born October 21, 1891; Anna Harper, the youngest child, was born September 12 , 1863. Mr. Harper has carried on farming with great energy and has been a liberal supporte r of those movements tending to advance the interests of the general public. A man of integri ty and honor, he has the confidence and respect of the community. This biography is taken from Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio, Embracing the countie s of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake; Lewis Publishing Company, 1893. Ã 1996 Becky Falin



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