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John V Goheen owns and resides upon a fine farm of 160 acres, in Clinton township, and well may he view with pleasure these ancestral acres, which have been in the possession of the family from the time when the land was purchased from the government by his honored father several years prior to the admission of Michigan to the Union. He himself is now numbered among the venerable pioneer citizens of this section of the state and is a scion of a family whose name became identifies with the annals of Lenawee county in formative period when this locality was little more than a wilderness. He has been a factor in the work of development and progress and has found in the great industry of agriculture ample scope for the exercise of his best energies. John Vance Goheen, was born at Groveland, Livingston county, New York, Oct. 12, 1829, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Headley) Goheen, natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was born Jan 13, 1796, and the latter Sept. 14, 1797. In 1831 the parents left the old Empire State and followed the tide of emigration to the embryonic commonwealth of Michigan. In October of that year they arrived in Tecumseh township, Lenawee county, and on May 8, following, they settled on the old homestead now owned and occupied by their only surviving son, the subject of this review. The father made a clearing in the midst of the virgin forest, and in the same erected his pioneer log cabin, which served as the family home for a number of years. On this farm John Goheen passed the residue of his life, and before he was summoned fro the scene of his earnest labors he had succeeded in reclaiming a considerable portion of his land to cultivation and had made other substantial improvements. He was a man of inviolable integrity of purpose, of strong mentality ad vigorous personality, so that he wielded no little inunqualified confidence and respect. He died in May 1866, and his wife long survived him, as her demise occurred April 29 1882. They became the parents of three sons and four daughters, and of a number the only two now living are the subject of this sketch, and his sister, Elizabeth Miranda. In politics the father was originally identified with the old-line Whig party, but he supported the Republican party from the time of its organization until his death. He and his wife were zealous and life-long members of the Presbyterian church and were active in its work and support. One of their sons, Charles Edward, died in 1864 while serving as a soldier in the Civil war; he enlisted in 1863 as a private in the Thirteenth Michigan infantry and was with Sherman on the ever memorial march from Atlanta to the sea. John V Goheen, whose name initiates this article, was about two years of age at the time of the family emigration from the East to Lenawee county, and here he was reared to manhood under the strenuous but invigorating discipline of the pioneer farm, while his early education training was received in the common schools of the locality ad period. His entire active career has been one of the close and successful identification with agricultural pursuits, and the major portion of his life has been passed on the old homestead of which he is now owner and to whose supervision he still gives his attention. He has kept pace with the march of progress and has made high-grade improvements on his farm, which us known as one of the attractive and well ordered places of Clinton township, and which renders goodly returns for the labors expended upon it in the past as well as at the present. The farm is given over to the raiding of the diversified crops best suited to the soil and climate, and for many years Mr Goheen has also been a successful grower of live stock. He has ever taken an intelligent interest in the questions and issues of the hour but the honors and emoluments of public office have had no appeal to hi. He is a supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party and he and his wife are consistent members of the Presbyterian church. On Oct. 11, 1883, Mr Goheen was united in marriage to Miss Esther Murphy, who was born in county Antrim, Ireland, Aug 31 1858, and who is the daughter of John Murphy, a sterling pioneer of Lenawee county, and one of whom more specific mention is made in the sketch of the career of Dr. John Murphy, on other pages of this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Goheen have no children.

Census

John V Goheen age 40 farmer born New York real estate $11000 personal $2000
Elizabeth age 72 born Pennsylvania
Miranda age 35 born Michigan
Lydia age 42 born New York
John V Jr age 12 born Michigan at school

Census

Jno V Goheen age 50 farmer crippled of fall born born New York, parents born Pennsylvania
Lydia sister age 52 born New York
Miranda age 45 sister born New York
Elizabeth age 83 mother born Pennsylvania, parents born Pennsylvania

Marriage

Name: John V. Gohren
Spouse's Name: Esther Murphy
Event Date: 11 Oct 1883
Event Place: Macon, Lenawee, Michigan

Census

John V Goheen born Oct 1829, married 16 years born New York parents born Pennsylvania farmer
Esther wife born Aug 1836 1 child alive born Ireland parents born Ireland, immigrated 1881
Elizabeth M sister born Mar 1835 single Michigan
Mary Murphy, step daughter born Dec 1879 born Ireland immigrated 1881 dress maker
next household is Samuel Boyce household whose daughters married Gohen's Samuel born Ireland immigrated 1850

Census

John Goheen age ? , married 27 years born New York parents Pennsylvania, farmer
Esther Goheen age 51, born Ireland immigrated 1880 parents Ireland
Miranda Goheen age 75 single born Michigan parents Pennsylvania
Lee Scutt age 30 servant, born Michigan parents Unknown farmer
Anna Scott boarder, age 32 married 0 years born Ireland parents Ireland immigrated 1905 dressmaker
next household is Fred M Goheen age 50 born New York parents Pennsylvania

Death

Name: John V Goheen, cerebral hemorrhage
Birth Date: 12 Oct 1829; Place: New York
Death Date: 12 Dec 1913; Place: Clinton, Lenawee, Michigan, USA
Father: John Goheen, born Pennsylvania
Mother: Elizabeth Headly, born Pennsylvania
Informant Mrs J V Goheen
Burial 15 Dec 1913

BIRTH  1829
DEATH  1913
BURIAL  Brookside Cemetery  Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA
PLOT  Section "S"
MEMORIAL ID  68265641