James Richard Tillotson
James Richard Tillotson was born November 26, 1877, at Dunbarton, Adams County. His father is John W. Tillotson, and his mother, Lucinda D. Jobe. He attended the District school in Dunbarton. He began teaching at the age of sixteen, and attended the Normal school at Peebles in 1893, conducted by Prof. J. E. Collins, now of Batavia, Ohio, and James S. Thomas of Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1894, he attended Normal school at Manchester, conducted by Prof. J. W. Jones. In the Summer of 1895 and 1896, he attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and took a scientific course. His first year of teaching, 1894 and 1895, was at Colon, in Meigs Township. His second school, 1895 and 1896, was at Steam Furnace. In 1896 and 1897, he taught at Sugar Grove, in Washington Township, Scioto County. In 1897 and 1898. he taught at Hygiene in the same township. In 1898 and 1899, he taught at Lower Carey's Run, and at the time of writing this sketch, he is engaged in teaching at the same place. He holds a three years' certificate in Scioto County and a five years' certificate in Adams County.
He has been very successful as a teacher and has always given the most perfect satisfaction to the school boards and patrons of the several schools wheie he has taught. In politics, he is a Democrat. He has but few equals of his age in scholarship. He is true to every trust confided in him, and thorough in every duty or work he assumes.
He has those elements of character which will secure him success in any profession or business he may undertake.
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