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TIPTON COUNTY,
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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
Calvin. James, 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) Jackson. Mrs. 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) Jackson. Samuel 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 Nancy.
Mrs. 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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