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JOSIAH FARRINGTON'S CIVIL WAR DIARY AND LETTERS By Myron Bradley |
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Josiah Farrington, born in 1827, moved from Vermont to Whitehouse Ohio, in the early 1850's accompanied by his wife Araadna Goodwin Farrington. He farmed and became a Justice of the Peace. According to his nephew and namesake, Albert Josiah (A.J.) Bradley, he also "ran the one and only store in town and in partnership with Alex Walp ran the first stone quarry there." Araadna died in September, 1860, leaving him with their two children, daughter Addie and son Ambrose ("Bose"). The next July he enlisted for a three-year period
in Captain James McCabe's Company, 14th Regiment of the Ohio
Infantry for Civil War duty. He left his two children and his
mother, Almira Hall Farrington, with his younger sister Cyntha Pike
Farrington Bradley, and her husband Eber. It is to Cyntha, Eber, his
mother, and his two children that his letters are addressed. The diary and letters
along with other family papers were given to Myron Bradley in 1932
or 1933 by his grandfather, A. J. Bradley. His edited version
appeared in the NORTHWEST OHIO QUARTERLY, Summer, 1977, Volume
XLIX, No. 3, The
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