The farming interests of Clay county include among its most
prominent representatives John E. Englehart,whose attractive and valuable
homestead is located in section 11, Jackson township. The three years
subsequent to his marriage and leaving home were spent in Harmony, Indiana,
where he was engaged in teaming and coal mining, and then coming to
Jackson township he bought forty acres of land, the nucleus of his present
estate of one hundred and thirty and a half acres, of which he has cleared
about eighty acres and has made many valuable and substantial improvements.
He makes a specialty of the raising of stock, and is very successful in
both his farming and stock interests.
    Mr. Englehart was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, March 20,
1846, and is of German parentage. His father, John Englehart, for
many years a prominent farmer in Jackson township, was born in Ger-
many, and when a young man came to America and married in Zanes-
ville, Ohio, where he first located, a native daughter of his own country,
Magdalina Zimmerman, they becoming the parents of five children, three
sons and two daughters. For several years after coming to America Mr.
Englehart worked at the stone cutter’s trade, and was then engaged in
agricultural pursuits in Ohio until his removal to Clay county, Indiana,
in an early period in its history. He arrived here soon after the war and
bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jackson township, which
he and his sons cleared of its dense growth of timber, and this farm con-
tinued as his home until his death. He gave his political allegiance to
the Democratic party, and was a member of the Lutheran church.
    His son, John W. Englehart, was a young man when he came to
Clay county, and he was married in Jackson township in 1869 to Lena
Byers, who was born and reared in Zanesville, Ohio. Her father, John
Byers, came from his native land of Germany to America when a young
man and located in Ohio, where he was married to Lena Bastian, also
a native of the fatherland, and together they came to Clay county about
five years subsequent to the arrival of Mr. Englehart, purchasing one
hundred and sixty acres of land in Jackson township. Mr. Englehart
affiliates with the Democracy, and is a member of the Lutheran church.