John B. Firestone
J. B. FIRESTONE, M. D., was bom March 30, 1828, in Wayne County, Ohio, son of John and Rachael Firestone, natives of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and of German descent. He was reared on a farm, but had an opportunity of attending school, and, at the age of nineteen, began reading medicine at Congress with Prof L. Firestone, now of Wooster University; he then attended lectures at Cleveland Medical College, concluded his course at the Wooster (Ohio) University, graduating in 1874. He began practice in 1850 at Cannonsburg, Ohio, and, in 1855, moved to Columbia City, Whitley Co., Ind. thence he came to Larwill in about 1859, and has secured a practice extending through a circuit often miles. Dr. Firestone has been an active Democrat, and, in 1858, was called to the State Legislature, in which he served two sessions to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. In 1876, he was nominated for State Senator, jointly for Whitley and Kosciusko, and in this Republican district was defeated by only twenty-six votes. The Doctor stands very high in the Masonic fraternity, having attained the 32d degree next to the highest conferred by the rites. In 1848, he was married to Sarah A. Orr, and four children were the result of the union. Mrs. Firestone died in 1855, and in 1856 the Doctor took his second partner, Rebecca McHenry, of Van Wert, Ohio, by whom he has had one child.
John married Sarah A. Orr on 17 Oct 1848 in Ashland County, Ohio. (Sarah A. Orr was born on 28 Dec 1827, died on 25 Dec 1855 in Larwill, In. and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Whitley Co. In..) |
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