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Source:
History of
Tipton County, Indiana
Her People, Industries and Institutions
by M. W. Pershing
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families
ILLUSTRATED
Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana
1914

BIOGRAPHIES
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CALVIN SHOOK.  The best title one can establish to the high and generous esteem of an intelligent community is a protracted and honorable residence therein.  The subject of this sketch is one of the best known and highly esteemed men of Tipton county.  He has resided in the state for eighty-two years and in this county for more than thirty.  His career has been a most commendable one in every respect and well deserving of being perpetuated in the pages of an  historical work of the present nature.  Like his sterling father before him, he has been a man of well defined purpose, and has never failed to carry to a successful completion the works of enterprise to which he has addressed himself.  He is one of those old pioneers who is familiar with all the disadvantages of farming a half century ago.  He has let nothing deter him during the four score years of his life, and during that time he has led a life which has commended him to a long list of loyal friends.  The young farmers of today little appreciate the advantages of their surroundings, and it is by perusing the sketches of such men as Calvin Shook that they will understand what our forefathers had to contend with.  Mr. Shook began life in a practically new country and certainly under unfavorable auspices for successful farming, and yet he let nothing deter him and before the lapse of many years he had a fine farm under cultivation.  All honor to these good forefathers of ours who have made it possible that the farmers of today are able to possess the valuable farms which are scattered throughout the length and breadth of our fair state.
     Calvin Shook, a retired farmer of Sharpsville, was born June 17, 1832, in Ripley county, Indiana, the son of Lorenzo and Maria (Ludwig) Shook.  His father came from Maryland to Dearborn county, Indiana, and followed the occupation of a farmer all his life.  The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was John Shook, who came to Indiana, bringing his family with him, buying land in Dearborn county, and made that his home throughout the remainder of his life.  To him and his wife were born the following children:  David P., deceased; John, Hezekiah, Peter, Amos, David, Susan, Lorenzo, Lydia A., Margaret, Sarah and Jabez.  Lorenzo Shook's wife died in Tipton county, Indiana.  They were the parents of a large family of eleven children, of which the subject is the oldest child.  L. V. Shook, who is represented elsewhere in this volume, is a brother of CalvinJames, a brother of Calvin Shook, came to Tipton county and engaged in the mercantile business.  Later, in 1884, Calvin came to this county and rented a farm from Mr. Grishaw, which he managed for a period of five years.  He then went to his brother's farm, where he remained for seven years.  By the exercise of thrift and frugality he saved his money and purchased a farm of eighty acres in Wildcat township.  A few years later he bought another farm in Liberty township, which he conducted for a few years, after which he moved to Sharpsville, where he has since lived a retired life.
     Mr. Shook has been married four times, first to Martha Holman, to which union was born one child, Mary, who married Peter Archibald.  His second wife was Sarah A. Harper and to this union were born four children.  Mr. Shook's third wife was a Miss Jackson, and to them were born five children.  Daly E., Charles D., Daisy P., Bessie and one who died in infancy.  His fourth wife was Mary Ewing, and to them was born one child, Bertha M.  His last wife was the daughter of James and Jane (Richards) Ewing, both of whom are now deceased.  They were natives of Pennsylvania and spent their lives in Holmes county, Ohio, being buried in Holmes county, that state.
     Mr. Shook has been a life-long Republican, and has always advocated the principles of that party, but his own business affairs demanding his time and attention, he has never been a seeker for public preferment,  although interested in all the current questions of the day and giving of his earnest support and influence to all movements looking toward the welfare of his community.  He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for more than fifty years, and during all this time he has contributed liberally to its support and taken an active interest in the various departments of the church work.  He has always taken a deep interest in all the affairs of his community, social, moral, material and educational, and has so ordered his life that he has won the esteem and affection of a large circle of friends and acquaintances.  He has the satisfaction of looking back over his four-score years and feeling that he has done his best; that his life has not been lived in vain, and as one of the old and substantial citizens of his county he enjoys the esteem and confidence of all who know him.
Source:  History of Tipton County, Indiana by M. W. Pershing - Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - 1914 - Page 503
D. E. SHOOK.  Farming is becoming recognized as a profession and the future farmers of our country will be trained as carefully as are our ministers and physicians.  Purdue University now gives a four-year course in agriculture, leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree.  The 1913 Legislature of this state created a new official known as the county agent whose duties are to give expert advice to farmers on all subjects pertaining to agriculture.  The short courses given at Purdue every year are being attended by increasing thousands of farmers and their sons.  The tendency of all this points to a new era in farming.  Farmers' institutes are being held throughout the state and have been the means of keeping the farmers abreast of the times.  Farming is becoming a science and the most successful farmer today is the man who studies his business.  Such a farmer is the subject of this sketch.
     D. E. Shook was born July 30, 1871, in Ripley county, Indiana, near Versailles.  He is the son of Calvin and Keziah (Jackson) Shook.  (See elsewhere in this volume for ancestral history of the Shook family.)  D. E. Shook came to Tipton county with this parents when he was thirteen years of age, and attended the Tipton and Beech Grove schools.  He worked on the farm during all of the time that he was attending school.  He commenced renting land at first, and later, in partnership with his brother, Charles D., bought forty acres of land, and he later sold.  He now has three hundred and ninety acres of fine land in this county.
     On Mar. 29, 1900, D. E. Shook was married to Ardella Hamm, and they have one child, Elsie Hamm Shook.
     Mr. Shook has always affiliated with the Republican party and advocated the principles of that organization.  He ahs never sought political office of any sort, but has directed all his energies to the management of his large farm, in which he has been very successful.  Mr. Shook has always manifested excellent business judgment, and has always been an indefatigable worker.  For this reason he has made a success of his life work, and at the same time he has the confidence and good will of a host of warm, personal friends.  The home ties are strong in him and he and his good wife have made their presence felt for good in the community in which they have lived for so many years.
Source:  History of Tipton County, Indiana by M. W. Pershing - Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - 1914 - Page 351
DAVID W. SHOOK.  It is well authenticated fact that success comes as the result of legitimate and well applied energy, unflagging determination and perseverance in a course of action when once decided upon.  She is never known to smile upon the idler or dreamer and she never courts the loafer, and only the men who have diligently sought her favor are crowned with her blessings.  In tracing the history of the influential retired farmer and representative citizen of Tipton county whose name forms the caption of this review, it is plainly seen that the prosperity which he enjoys has been won by commendable qualities and it is also his personal worth that has gained for him the high esteem of those who know him.
     David W. Shook, retired farmer, now living in Windfall and the owner of two hundred and eighty acres of land in Madison township near Cicero, was born Apr. 20, 1836, in Ripley county, this state, the son of Lorenzo and Miriah (Ludwig) Shook.  The father, Lorenzo, was born in Frederick, Maryland, and came to the Hoosier state in 1808, locating in Dearborn county, where he engaged in agriculture.  Lorenzo was the son of John and Dorcas (Ball) Shook, who came to Dubois county in 1808.  To the subject's parents were born the following children:  Ellen, deceased; Calvin lives at Sharpsville; Margaret; David W.; Abraham, who died in 1875, was the husband of Elizabeth O'Neil, also deceased, they having had one son, Walter; and a daughter, America, who was the wife of William M. Grishall, who is now deceased.  His wife was the mother of five children, Grant, Byrom, Charles, Harry and Orie; James K., of Tipton; Harriet; Luther V.; Joseph B. is married and has one child, Mayme.
     David W. Shook
attended school in Ripley county, first in the districts and later in Versailles, working at farm labor during his youthful days on his father's place and securing a training in agricultural pursuits that was valuable to him in later life when he was working for himself.  On reaching mature years Mr. Shook purchased fifty acres of land, which he later sold at a good profit and bought eighty acres, on which he farmed with great success.  This tract he eventually sold and then he removed to Tipton county, where he rented land in Cicero township for five years, at the end of which period he bought one hundred and sixty acres.  To the improvement and development of this tract the subject devoted his energies with such success that he was enabled from time to time to add additional acreage, finally becoming the possessor of two hundred and eighty acres of as good land as can be found in the county.  On his retirement from active farming Mr. Shook moved to Sharpsville, later coming to Windfall.
     On May 15, 1862, Mr. Shook was united in marriage to Sarah Jackson, the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Waters) JacksonMrs. Shook's father was born in 1813 and came to Ripley county in 1826.  He was a farmer and his father and mother were Hezekiah and Rebecca (O'Neil) JacksonSamuel Jackson was the father of the following children:  Sarah, Amos, Rebecca, Tabitha, John and Kaizirrah are deceased; Mildrey; Margaret is deceased; Silas; Mary; Rebecca is deceased.
     To the subject and his wife have been born eight children: Morton C. who married May Peters; Elmer is married and the father of four children, Esther, Floyd, Glen and Helen Gertrude; Willard is married and the father of three children, Hazel, Carrie and Roscoe; Nora is the wife of William Smith; Lorenzo is married and the father of three children, Gladys, Donald and Doris; Bernice married Ira Melson and has a son, Ralph; Albert is married and the father of two children, Alpha and Wilber; Flora is still at home.
Source:  History of Tipton County, Indiana by M. W. Pershing - Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - 1914 - Page 501
JAMES K. SHOOK.  It cannot be other than gratifying to note that within the pages of this compilation will be found mention of many prominent and successful citizens of the county who stand representative of the sturdy pioneer element which instituted the herculean task of reclaiming the state from the wilderness, carrying the work valiantly forward and leaving it to their sons and daughters to rear the superstructure upon the foundations thus firmly laid.  Those who have been the founders and builders of the great Hoosier state are the ones who chiefly find place in this work, and in this number should not be omitted mention of the personal career of the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this article, who has passed a great part of his life in Tipton county and contributed no little to the prosperity of this favored section.
     James K. Shook was born in Ripley county, Indiana, Oct. 29, 1844, the son of Lorenzo D. and Maria (Ludwick) Shook, the father a native of Baltimore county, Maryland, and the mother of Dearborn county, Indiana, they being very early pioneers in Dearborn county.  The father was born June 24, 1808, and came to the Hoosier state with his parents in 1811, when he was but three yeas old.  He spent his early youth in the Miami bottoms of Dearborn county and the  removed to Ripley county, where he engaged in farming, cleared and improved a place and reared his family there.  The subject's father was engaged in flat-boating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, taking his produce to New Orleans in this way and then walking back.  He died in Ripley county on Feb. 5, 1886, and his wife, who was born Sept. 6, 1814, died Dec. 27, 1899.  Lorenzo D. Shook came to Ripley county in 1825.  He was buried in the Versailles cemetery, having been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, as was also his wife, she having been of that faith since her early childhood.  To the subject's parents were born eleven children, namely:  Calvin, Margaret Ann, David W., Abraham (deceased), America (now Mrs. William M. Grishaw), Errena, James K., Harriet, Luther V., Joseph V., and Ellen, the last named dying in infancy.
     The paternal grandparents of the subject were named Ludwick and were natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent and were among the pioneers of Dearborn county, even before the Shook family arrived.  They lived an old age and had a large family of children: Joseph, Jacob, Ellen, Rebecca, Maria, Peggy and three others.
     James K. Shook was reared in Ripley county on his father's farm and attended the old fashioned subscription school in a log school house.  He lived at home until he reached the age of twenty-two, having begun teaching school at the age of eighteen.  Coming to Tipton county in 1868, he located at Sharpsville, where he taught for two terms, then forming a partnership with George V. Haynes and William M. Grishaw and opening a general store at Sharpsville, under the firm name of Haynes, Grishaw & Shook, continuing at this business was in business here until 1905.  His business career in the county covered a span of thirty-five years and one-day.  Since 1905 the subject has been retired, overseeing the operation of his three hundred and twenty acres of farm land in Liberty township, a highly improved tract of some of the best land in the community.  In 1889 Mr. Shook built his beautiful residence in Tipton at No. 240 North West street.
     On May 26, 1875, James K. Shook was united in marriage to Rebecca A. Kirkpatrick, daughter of James and Mary (Oldham) Kirkpatrick, natives of Kentucky who came to Indiana at an early date.  The father died in Howard county and the mother in Sharpsville, both being buried in Howard county.  They had five children, Sophronia, Cyntia, Mrs. Shook, John W. and NancyMrs. James K. Shook died Mar. 4, 1909, at the age of sixty years.  She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is also Mr. Shook.  The Kirkpatrick family dates back to the ninth century or earlier, but the records begin in the twelfth century.  In the old documents the Kirkpatricks are called "a principal family of Great Britain," and are allied to the royal Stewarts, Sinclairs, Maxwells, Seatons, the Marquis of Lothian and James XI of Scotland.
     James K. Shook and wife became the parents of two children, Fronda and Ralph K.  The former is the wife of G. C. Goss and lives in Indianapolis.
Source:  History of Tipton County, Indiana by M. W. Pershing - Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - 1914 - Page 629
LUTHER V. SHOOK.  The farmer is the bulwark of the nation and investigation has shown that a majority of our best business men, of our best lawyers, of our best men of every vocation of life, have been raised on the farm.  George Washington was a farmer and was proud of the fact:  Abraham Lincoln was reared on a farm in the southern part of our own state.  Probably the most popular Democratic governor this state ever had was "Blue Jeans" Williams, who prided himself on being nothing but a farmer.  The Republican party never had a better governor than that plain, unostentatious farmer, James A. Mount.  Verily, the farmer is the bulwark of the nation, the salt of the earth.  To be a farmer today is today is to be a king among men.
     Luther V. Shook, the proprietor of the Fair View farm of one hundred and fifty-three acres, was born in Ripley county, Indiana, on Sept. 27, 1850, and is the son of Lorenzo D. and Mariah (Ludwick) Shook.  Lorenzo D. Shook came from Westmoreland county, Maryland, where he was born in 1808, to Indiana with his parents in 1811, and settled in Dearborn county, but shortly afterwards his parents moved to Ripley county, where they lived most of the remainder of their lives.  He died in that county in 1886, his wife surviving him thirteen years.  Most of his family were born and reared in that county.  Both were buried at Tipton.  They were the parents of the following children:  Ellen, deceased; Calvin, who lives at Sharpsville; Margaret; David W., a resident of Windfall; Abraham, who died in 1875, and who married Elizabeth O'Neil, also dead (they had one son, Walter); America, the deceased wife of Mr. Grishaw  to them were born six children, three living, Byrom, Charles and Harry, and three deceased, Grant, Ora B. and one who died in infancy; Arie; James K., of Tipton; Harriett; Luther V.; Joseph B., who is married and has one child, Mayme.
     Luther V. Shook
went to the country schools in Ripley county, and one term in the graded schools at Versailles, Indiana.  He worked on the farm during his boyhood, and by his frugality was able to buy out the other heirs after his father's death.  Several years ago he moved to Tipton county, where several of his brothers had settled.  He was in the city of Tipton for a short time, and was later engaged in the management of a general store in Sharpsville for two years with his brother.  His interest in public affairs and the esteem in which he has been held by his fellow citizens is shown in the fact that he was elected trustee of Johnson township for two terms.  He conducted the affairs of that office to the entire satisfaction of the township.
     Mr. Shook is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and has contributed freely to the support of that denomination.  Throughout his long career in Tipton county he has so conducted himself and his affairs that he has been regarded as one of those citizens who has the welfare of the community at heart.  Every enterprise which has had for its purpose the furthering of the moral or the social life of his community has found in him a ready and sympathetic helper.
Source:  History of Tipton County, Indiana by M. W. Pershing - Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - 1914 - Page 414
DAVID W.  SHUCK.  For many years this sterling citizen has occupied a distinctively prominent place among the leading farmers of the township in which he lives, while a continuous residence in Tipton county of many years has given him wide publicity and an honorable name throughout his county.  His success has been due to his superior intelligence, sound judgment and well-directed industry, while his generous nature, broad utilitarian principles and eminently progressive ideas have won him the respect of his fellow citizens and made him in no small degree a leader of thought and opinion in his community.
     David W. Shuck cannot claim Indiana as his native state, his birth having occurred in Kentucky Dec. 11, 1859.  His parents, James B. and Eliza (Shuck) Shuck, were natives of Henry county, Kentucky, and after their marriage they moved to Shelby county, that state, where the subject of this sketch was born.  Here they continued to reside until 1871, when they came to Tipton county, Indiana, where they have since lived.  Upon coming to this county, James B. Shuck purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, on which he has continuously resided since coming to the county.  To Mr. and Mrs. James Shuck were born thirteen children, seven of whom are living:  Sarah became the wife of John Peters, and after his death she married Strand Sanford; John, who married Charity Wainsworth; Mrs. James Graham; James A., who married Ida Woods; Richard M. married Susan Atkinson; Mrs. Lucy Rayle; the other six children all died in childhood.
     During the years of the childhood and youth, David Shuck attended the schools of his neighborhood and received a practical education which has been all sufficient for his needs.  After leaving school he worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-three years of age, when he and his brother, John, began to follow ditching as a profession.  For the next five years they were engaged in this line of endeavor, their work being a part of the contract which called for extensive draining throughout the county.  At the age of twenty-five, Mr. Shuck was married and at once bought a farm of forty acres, and after operating this tract for three years, he sold it and bought his present farm of seventy-eight acres.  Although beginning in a modest way, h is industry and well-directed energies have enabled him to make steady and substantial progress and but few years elapsed after his marriage until he found himself on the high road to success.  The lessons learned in youth he found of especial value, as they proved the stepping stones on which he mounted to a higher plane of endeavor.  He had true thrift and economy instilled into his mind by his parents, and these qualities later enabled him to master details and utilize all his efforts in the accomplishment of that which he set out to achieve.
     Mr. Shuck was married to Sarah Carter, the daughter of Thurston and Amanda Carter, and to this union there were born four children:  Grover, who married Lillie Orr, has one daughter, Evelyn; Elizabeth, who married Vernon Harlow, is the mother of three children, Vivian, Margaret and Sarah E., while the two youngest sons, Everett and Noel, are still under the parental roof.  Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Carter, the parents of Mrs. Shuck, had a family of five children, Elizabeth, Edmond, Sarah and two who died in infancy.  Elizabeth married James Shuck first and after his death married Jonathan Cardwell, who died a few years later, and she then married Thomas Brooks; Edmond married, first Dora Thacher, and second, Catherine Gross.
     Mr. Shuck has been a strong and prominent supporter of the principles of the Democratic party and never hesitates to assign a logical reason for his political views, being well grounded in the principles on which his party is based and thoroughly informed relative to the leading public questions and issues of the day.  However, he has never been a candidate for any public office, being content to serve as a worker in the ranks and devote his attention to his agricultural interests.  He has long been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Groomsville, Indiana, and for the past five years has been a trustee in the church.  Mr. Shuck is a sound, practical business man and his career in every respect has been eminently creditable, as well as successful.  It is true that in the present day the successful farmer must be necessity be a successful business man.  The same good common sense and mature judgment which makes a successful manufacturer also makes a successful farmer.  Mr. Shuck is a man of pleasing personality and he and his good wife are active members of the social life of their community, where they number their friends and acquaintances in a wide circle.  The lives of such people are a benefit to any community and are such as to win for them the commendation of all with whom they come in contact.
Source:  History of Tipton County, Indiana by M. W. Pershing - Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - 1914 - Page 613
 
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