John Martin Jolley, son of Absalom and Phebe Jolley, who removed from Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Richland county, Ohio, in 1819, was born in Springfield township, Richland county, April 24th., 1830.  Received his education principally in the public schools but studied for a time at Oberlin college and at Gundry's Commercial College, Cincinnati, O.

He was deputy clerk of court of common pleas of Crawford county, Ohio, in 1848-9, and deputy auditor of Richland county, Ohio, in 1850 and '51.  In 1853 became book-keeper and teller in the bank of E. Sturges, Sr. & Co., where he remained until the Richland National Bank was organized in 1865, when he was elected cashier of that institution and retained the position until January 1, 1884.  From that time until October, 1889, he was cashier and book-keeper on the wholesale shoe house of H.M. Weaver & Co.  In 1863, Mr. Jolley was elected treasurer of Richland county, but had the business of the office transacted by T.J. Robinson, deputy.

Mr. Jolley has written much for the local newspapers and is the author of many musical compositions and recently purchased the HALIFAX JOURNAL at Daytona, Florida, and removed to that place.  Mr. Jolley has been married three times and has a wife and one child, a daughter, living.

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