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John Cooper, Findlay, Ohio. 



Since the war I have tried several branches of business. 

 First, I tried U. S. mail line, from Monmouth to Millersburgr, 111., 

 did pretty well; then solicited insurance for T. Johnson & Son, 

 of Monmouth; then got married and tried farming, which was 

 not very remunerative; sold out in 1868 and moved to Kansas, 

 Jackson county, bought a farm and tried to make a raise, bat it 

 would not raise, so I worked in a hardware store, drug store and 

 dry goods store, and finally sold my farm and started a store of my 

 own in Netawaka, which I run successfully for ten years, but 

 when the oil boom broke out here in my old native county, I got 

 homesick and disposed of my stock of goods and made a break 

 for the oil territory and succeeded in getting 126 acres within two 

 miles of Findlay, on which I now have 14 producing oil wells. I 

 also purchased 80 acres one and a half miles from my home place 

 on which I have 12 pi'odueing wells. I am also a breeder of short 

 horn cattle. 



At Atlanta, Ga., July 22nd, 1864, I received four shots, first 

 in left fore finger, second on left hip joint, third, right elbow, 

 fourth ball struck cheek bone and knocked out two of my teeth 

 and lodged a portion of it in one of my lower teeth where it re- 

 mained until the 13th day of last Oct., making forty-two years 

 and almost three months that I carried it. 



T. H. Croson, Winterset. Iowa. 



Since the war I have followed the occupation of farming. 

 In 1880, moved to Obrion county, Iowa, where we remained 13 

 years, then returned to Illinois where we remained 7 years, then 

 moved to Madison county, Iowa, wherp> 1 have been farming till 

 one year ago, since have been in the grocery business in Win- 

 terset. Am married, and have 4 children, all doing for them- 

 selves. 



Isaac H. Close, Salineville, Ohio. 



I have lived in Salineville, Ohio, for thirty-five years. 

 For the first 12 years of that time, was in the employ of the C. & 

 P. railroad, and for the last 20 years have been in the employ of 

 the O. &: P. Coal company, building cars foi' their mines at this 



