"JOHN H. WASSON was born in Preble county, Ohio, April 18th, 1827. His father, was a farmer by occupation. His mother was a native of Ohio. The subject of this sketch attended school until he was nineteen years of age, working on a farm during the summer months. From the time he left school until he reached manhood he continued to follow farming chiefly, also working in a mill and teaching school. At the age of twenty-one he moved to Wayne county, Indiana, where he leased a saw-mill and engaged in the lumber business for three years. He then went into the grain trade with S. Thomas & Co., remaining with that firm until the panic of 1857. From 1858 to 1871 he was in the general commission and salt business, being agent for the Ohio River Salt Company. In 1871 Mr. Wasson moved to Columbus and organized the Central Ohio Salt Company, of Muskingum and Hocking valley. He was appointed general agent of this company, in which position he has since continued. He has been eminently successful as a business man, the result of his own energy and perseverance. In whatever position he has been placed he has made the best of his opportunities, maintaining through life a strict integrity. He is an active and influential member of the Odd Fellows. In December, 1857, he married Rexabel E. Braffett, of New Paris, Ohio.

"JOHN H. WASSON was born in Preble county, Ohio, April 18th, 1827. His father, was a farmer by occupation. His mother was a native of Ohio. The subject of this sketch attended school until he was nineteen years of age, working on a farm during the summer months. From the time he left school until he reached manhood he continued to follow farming chiefly, also working in a mill and teaching school. At the age of twenty-one he moved to Wayne county, Indiana, where he leased a saw-mill and engaged in the lumber business for three years. He then went into the grain trade with S. Thomas & Co., remaining with that firm until the panic of 1857. From 1858 to 1871 he was in the general commission and salt business, being agent for the Ohio River Salt Company. In 1871 Mr. Wasson moved to Columbus and organized the Central Ohio Salt Company, of Muskingum and Hocking valley. He was appointed general agent of this company, in which position he has since continued. He has been eminently successful as a business man, the result of his own energy and perseverance. In whatever position he has been placed he has made the best of his opportunities, maintaining through life a strict integrity. He is an active and influential member of the Odd Fellows. In December, 1857, he married Rexabel E. Braffett, of New Paris, Ohio.