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A. J, ST. JOHN, manufacturer, Bluffton, was born in Walton, Delaware Co., N. Y., August 20, 1836; son of Smith
and Emily (Handford) St. John, natives of Connecticut. and of English descent, former a farmer. Our subject was
reared on the farm, receiving a common school education. At seventeen years of age he commenced the manufacture
of oars and handles in Ashtabula County, Ohio, where he remained till 1863, when he went to Logansport, Ind., and
here he engaged in the manufacture of walnut lumber for two years. He then bought a tract comprising 300 acres
of land in Warren County, Penn., and after working the timber into lumber went to Erie City, Penn., where he bought
a planing mill which he operated ti]l 1879. In 1881 he came to Lima, Ohio, and same year moved to Bluffton and
erected his present mill, where he employs about twenty men the year round. In 1884 he manufactured and shipped
40,000 sucker rods for oil wells, also 200,000 fork and hoe handles. Mr. St. John owns 400 acres of land in Ohio,
besides his manufacturing establishment, and a substantial residence on Main Street in Bluffton. Politically he
is a Democrat, and in politics as well as in business he is outspoken and pronounced. He was united in marriage,
in 1862, with Miss Helen Trimmer of Ashtabala County, Ohio, of English decent, and to this union were horn three
children, two sons and a daughter: Guy, Zoe and Mac.
From:
History of Allen County, Ohio
Published by: Wamer, Beers and Company
Chicago, Illinois
1885
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