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Note: phical Annals of Lancaster County article on Henry Fry Binkley.
Manor Twp. tax records in 1841, Johnson Binkley was taxed as a farmer on 34 acres, 1 house, 2 horses, 3 cows.
The 11 Apr 1835 issue of the Columbia Spy newspaper [on line at the Lancaster County Historical Society web site] lists him among the men having letters still in the Manor Post Office in Washington Boro, altho he had not yet left for Ohio (or hadn't sold his PA land).
Some say he was a miller near Safe Harbor in Manor Tp. -- An obit from the Brookville OH newspaper lists Samuel H. Binkley, son of Johnson Binkley and Elizabeth, as being born near Safeharber, Lancaster Co, PA.
He shows in the 1840 census in Manor Tp.
Annette Stewart writes: "I finally met with Wilma and Orpha (Binkley family). Amazing the pictures, family Bibles, and things they have. The Journal or log book 1835 looks like it might have been Johnson Binkley, born 1808 married to Mary NELSON and Elizabeth Binkley. It list entries about oats and grain, so don't know if this is what people brought to him or he bought, perhaps a store, etc. If anyone finds any records about him
owning a mill or store that might shed some insight here. With this
date, this would have been in PA since they came to OH later on.
It also listed names of people, possibly customers or neighbors in the
book which looks like they were accounts under these people's names.
Does anyone know the business practises back then or how they recorded
in the journals?"
Centennial History of Dayton... (1897) said: "Johnson Binkley was a miller by trade, and after his marriage ran a mill in Pennsylvania on the Big Conestoga, near Safe Harbor. He there bought two good farms, and became a man of property. In 1848 he removed with his family to Montgomery county [Ohio], settling on the farm now [1897] occupied by Samuel H. Binkley and containing 104 acres. This land he greatly improved, converting it into a good farm, upon which he lived for about forty-six years, until his death in 1892, in his eighty-fifth year. In religion he was a member of the church of the Brethren in Christ-later in life, however, becoming identified with the church of the United Brethren. He was a much respected man, and well known for his sterling honesty of his character.
Note: Alt. b. 29 Feb 1806. His name erroneously given as Jonathan in Biogra
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