Jonah Mason Lovett
Jonah Mason Lovett, of Manchester, Ohio, was born March 3, 1831, at Parkersburg, West Virginia, son of Daniel C, and Emiline (Lockhart) Lovett. Daniel Lovett, his grandfather, was a native of Loudon County, Virginia. His son emigrated to Adams County in 1835, and engaged in teaching until 1838. In that year he returned to Virginia and married Emeline Lockhart, daughter of Jonah Lockhart, and sister of Judge T. J. Lockhart. He and his wife located at Parkersburg, where they reared a family of seven children, to-wit: our subject and his twin sister Nannie, who married Mathew H. Hale, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Lucy, deceased; Daniel C, Jr., of Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Harry, deceased; Gertrude, deceased, and Emma C, wife of E. M. Lockhart, of Neodesha, Kansas. Daniel C. Lovett was a miller in Parkersburg, and in 1848 was elected County Surveyor of Wood County, West Virginia. He held that office continuously until his death. February 22, 1859.
Our subject received his education in the academy at Parkersburg, conducted by John C. Nash. At the age of sixteen, he entered the drug store of A. N. Williams, and remained there until his majority. From 1862 till 1881, he was a steamboat clerk on the Ohio River. From 1881 until 1888. he was a clerk in the Kanawha Valley Bank in Charleston, West Virginia. In 1888, he removed to a farm in Monroe Township, Adams County, and remained there until 1891. While a resident of Monroe Township, he served as Township Clerk a number of terms. In 1891, he removed to Manchester, where he has resided ever since. He is now bookkeeper for the C. Roush Flour Mill.
He was married to Miss Jane Stevenson, November 3, 1872, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Halbert) Stevenson, of Monroe Township (See sketch of Capt. Samuel C. Stevenson). The children of this marriage are David, in the mercantile business in the Indian Territory; Gordon Dickey, clerk in the Farmers' Bank of Manchester; Richard Stevenson, Lewis Ruffner, Harry Putney and Edward Craig.
From "History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time" - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900