"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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JACOB I. FULK, farmer and stock raiser, is the fifth of the nine children
of Henry W. and Mary (Shours) Fulk, natives of North Carolina, and of
German extraction. Jacob was born in this county, October 22, 1834, was
brought up on a farm and received a rudimentary education. When he was
nineteen years old, he commenced his apprenticeship as a tanner, after
which he went to Iowa for a year; then returned to Indiana, and March
29, 1855, he married Emily, daughter of John A. and Elizabeth Fiscus,
the result of which union was ten children, seven of whom are living-
Mary Melissa (Mrs. Wright), Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. Willey), Alexander,
Calvin Jacob, Marion, William V. and Merilda Ann. Mr. Fulk gave his
first vote for James Buchanan in 1856. He is a practical and successful
farmer, having a farm of 250 acres, well improved, stocked and cultivated
with good residence, barns, fencing, orchards, etc, all the results of 
his own directed industry. He is a greatly respected citizen, and he 
and his wife are members of the Christian Church.

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