JOHN WESLEY WHITEHURST, proprietor of the Eagle Restaurant, Findlay, was born in Rockingham County, Va., August 17. 1838; son of John and Margaret (Showalter) Whitehurst, of English pioneer ancestry, in that State. In 1842 they settled in Fairfield County, Ohio, and there the subject of our sketch grew to manhood. In 1860 he came to Hancock County, and the following year enlisted his services, August 5, 1861, in defense of the Union in Company G, Ninty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and did active service for over three years, participating in all the battles of these campaigns, and was wounded at Stone River. Ga. After the war he carried on a restaurant business in Huntington, Ind., for two years, and afterward traveled in the interest of mercantile trade till 1871, when he retired from that and engaged with a circus business for two years; coming here he established his present business and has by dint of good business ability, secured a nice trade and accumulated a good competence. Mr. Whitehurst was married, June 1, 1865, in Indiana, to Emma Ream, of Huntington. and by her he has one daughter--Mollie—a young lady of estimable attainments. Mr. Whitehurst has always contributed liberally to all worthy enterprises. He and his wife and daughter are regular attendants of the services of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a metaber of the Stoker Post, G. A. R., and of the Findlay Improvement Society, and of the Findlay Natural Gas Company.
JOHN WESLEY WHITEHURST, proprietor of the Eagle Restaurant, Findlay, was born in Rockingham County, Va., August 17. 1838; son of John and Margaret (Showalter) Whitehurst, of English pioneer ancestry, in that State. In 1842 they settled in Fairfield County, Ohio, and there the subject of our sketch grew to manhood. In 1860 he came to Hancock County, and the following year enlisted his services, August 5, 1861, in defense of the Union in Company G, Ninty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and did active service for over three years, participating in all the battles of these campaigns, and was wounded at Stone River. Ga. After the war he carried on a restaurant business in Huntington, Ind., for two years, and afterward traveled in the interest of mercantile trade till 1871, when he retired from that and engaged with a circus business for two years; coming here he established his present business and has by dint of good business ability, secured a nice trade and accumulated a good competence. Mr. Whitehurst was married, June 1, 1865, in Indiana, to Emma Ream, of Huntington. and by her he has one daughter--Mollie—a young lady of estimable attainments. Mr. Whitehurst has always contributed liberally to all worthy enterprises. He and his wife and daughter are regular attendants of the services of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a metaber of the Stoker Post, G. A. R., and of the Findlay Improvement Society, and of the Findlay Natural Gas Company.
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