J.
F. CAVEN
J. F. Caven. Three generations of the Caven family have contributed
to the development of the present farm owned by J. F.. Caven a magnificent
estate of 596 acres in Brown township. Mr. Caven who is one of the highly
respected retired residents of Piqua R.F.D. No. 6, was born on this farm
in 1852, a son of G. B. and Catherine (Simmonds) Caven. The family was
founded in this region by the grandfather of Mr. Caven at a time when the
Indians were still here in large numbers. The original log cabin home of
the family was very near to the scene of the Dilbone massacre and at that
time the grandparents of Mr. Caven fled to the protection of a stockade
which had been erected some distance to the south of their farm, remaining
there until the Indians had been driven from the region. The original buckskin
deed, issued at Washington early in the nineteenth century, and conveying
the land to the grandfather of Mr. Caven, is still in the latter's possession.
G. B. Caven was born on this farm and here spent the entire active portion
of his life, carrying on general farming and specializing in the raising
of Short Horn cattle and a good grade of sheep. In the evening of life
he and his worthy wife retired to the village of Fletcher, where they died
within six weeks of each other, in 1915. Mr. Caven was an exemplary citizen
and served his community as school director and Township trustee for twenty
years. He and his wife were held in the highest esteem in their community,
and were the parents of six children: J. F. and a child who died in infancy;
two sisters living in Fletcher and two deceased, one of whom was the wife
of Robert Morrow. J. F. Caven received his education in the public schools
and was reared on the home farm, which he has never left. He is the owner
of 596 acres of highly- cultivated land, and although he retired from active
pursuits nineteen years ago, still takes a keen interest in the operation
of his land and supervises its management. For many years he has been an
active participant in local affairs, and has served as a member of the
school board and the township board of trustees during a long period. His
war activities included membership on committees for the selling of bonds,
etc., and in local affairs he has always been a keen supporter of worthy
enterprises. In 1885 Mr. Caven married Florence, daughter of A. M. Berryhill,
of Vietcher, a member of an agricultural family, and to this union there
were born two children: Maude, who married Ralph Brown, an Oregon farmer,
and has one son and two daughters; and Carey, the wife of Charles Wiles,
of Sidney, Ohio, an agriculturist, and has one son and three daughters,
The first Mrs. Caven died and Mr. Caven married Milly B., daughter of J.
B. and Josephene (Fletcher) Moore, farming people of the Piqua community
of Miami county. To this union there have been born two children: Herbert
Milton, a graduate of Piqua High School; and Martha. Blanche, who, is attending
the high school in Brown township.
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