In 1826, John Law (1769-1862) traveled with his sons Matthew (age 20) and Henry (age 14) from their home in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland to Harrison County, Ohio. Once settled, he began his life as a farmer and raised cattle and sheep, as well as a multitude of crops.

Matthew (1806-1878) married Rebecca Birney (1810-1863) in 1836.  Henry (1812-1869) married Elizabeth McMillan (1818-1892) in 1839.  Elizabeth was also from County Tyrone and living at Station 15 in Harrison County.  Together they had eleven children, four boys and seven girls.  Around 1846, they moved to the current Law Farm.  The house at that time was only about half its current size with two rooms downstairs and four bedrooms upstairs as well as the adjacent summer kitchen.  The farm consisted of approximately 320 acres in a rectangle of one mile by one-half mile.  Henry chaired the local school board and was responsible for hiring and firing teachers.

John Quincy (J.Q.) Law (1846-1927) was born at the Law Farm and was oldest son and fourth child of Henry and Elizabeth.  In all likelihood, he was named after J.Q. Adams who was president when Henry came to America.  J.Q. was twenty-three years old at the time of his father’s death but six of his siblings were not yet of legal age, so J.Q. became their official guardian. 

J.Q. Law inherited the farm when his father died in 1869 and expanded the house when he added a kitchen in the downstairs and a living room and two bedrooms in the upstairs. J.Q. married Ella Scott in 1877. Ella Scott descended from two of the leading families of Western Pennsylvania.  Her mother, Rachel Vance descended from the Lairds of Barnbarroch in Scotland.  Ella Scott’s grandfather, Samuel Scott (1785-1819), was a captain in the War of 1812 and later a Brigadier General of the Pennsylvania militia.

J.Q. and Ella Scott Law nearly doubled the size of the current Law house soon after they were married.  They had six children.  Clyde, the oldest was born in 1878 and died at age 20 from tuberculosis.  The five surviving children were Lida (1880-1958), Frank (1881-1956), Loretta (1885-1959), Lena (1888-1963), and Jay (1891-1964). 

J.Q. followed in his fathers footsteps and became a farmer, and later a member of the school board. He also served on the Board of Directors at the Dennison National Bank. Lena and Ernest bred prized Percheron horses, the most famous being Laet Sir, who won the 1929 Michigan and Illinois state fairs.  His sire was, Laet, one of the most famous draft horses of all time.  Ernest and Laet Sir appear on the logo for the Law-Reed-Huss Farm Foundation.