“JOHN C. LOUTHAN

The subject of this sketch is the son of Hiram and Harriet (Hays) Lou-than, and was born in Columbiana, Ohio, May 20, 1836. He received a fair common school education, and continued with his parents till April, 1861, when he enlisted in Company F, of the Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which regiment was assigned to the Fourteenth Army Corps. During his service in the Union cause, Mr. Louthan participated in the battles of Lewisburgh, Chickamauga, Hoover’s Gap, Barryville, Cloud Mountain, Winchester (second battle), Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Bull Run (second battle), South Mountain, and the fight at Antietam, and a number of skirmishes not mentioned, numbering twenty-two in all. He was wounded at the battle of Mission Ridge, and also at Winchester. In most of these battles, he was color-bearer, though he served as orderly-sargeant during the latter part of his military careet.

Mr. Louthan was married in Ohio, to Miss Anna Jane Haddow. This lady was the daughter of Robert and Jeannette Haddow, and was born in Washington county, Ohio, June 8, 1840. She came to Missouri with her parents, while her husband was still in the service, and at the close of the war he followed them. Mr. Louthan came to this State and county soon after receiving his discharge, in March, 1865, and bought a farm in Enterprise township, where he still resides. He owns two hundred and twenty acres, all under cultivation, and with fair improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Louthan are the parents of seven children, three sons of whom still survive, while two sons and two daughters are dead.

Mr. Louthan is a self-made man, and has accumulated what he has by his own energy and industry.