Denniston, Andrew Jackson

Posted By: Claire Wichelmann
Date: 2 December 2001

Source: From History of Van Wert and Mercer Counties, Ohio, by Sutton 1882, (Gibson Twp.) page 458

ANDREW JACKSON DENNISTON is the proprietor of the Wayne House, Fort Recovery. He was born in Darke County, Ohio and married Lydia Ann Byrum, of the same county, March 24, 1864, by which union six children have been born. Andrew Jackson is the son of William Denniston, son of Johnston Denniston, who came to this country from North Ireland about the year 1800. His mother was Mary Jane Wasson, whose father also came from North Ireland about the same year. His wife's father, Robert Byrum, was a native of North Carolina. His mother-in-law, Mary Byrum, was a daughter of Jacob Getinger, of Baltimore. A. J. Denniston was clerk of Jackson Township, Darke County, Ohio, for three and a half years, and also a justice of the peace of the same township for two terms. From 1871 to 1879 he was mayor of Union City, Indiana. In the latter year, he resigned and removed to Fort Recovery, and was elected and now holds the office of mayor of said village. His grandfathers, Johnston Denniston and David Wasson, were among the first settlers of Washington Township, Darke County. His father purchased eighty acres of land in the woods, and paid for it by making rails for twenty-two cents per hundred, he hauled hoop poles to West Alexander, Ohio, marketed his wheat in Piqua, and teamed to Dayton and Cincinatti. He raised a large family of children, and all shared alike the hardships incident to the early settlement of this country.

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