age 75 years-2ms-27ds. h/o Sarah MCCRACKEN. son of Michael and Elizabeth KUEHN Fouts.
John Fouts, farmer and wagon-maker, Ellisville, was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., Feb. 18, 1826, and is the son of Michael and Elizabeth (Kuhn) Fouts; the former is living in Iowa, and the latter is dead. He is twin brother to the father of Frank F. Fouts, of Deerfield, whose biography appears in this work. His uncle William Andyke, in about the year 1823 walked from Philadelphia, Pa., to Pittsburg, where he procured a canoe and rowed down the Ohio river to its mouth, thence up the Mississippi river to St. Louis, which was then just a French trading post. From St. Louis he rowed on and entered the mouth of the Illinois river, and up this stream to its head, and there abandoned his canoe and walked across to Chicago, which was, as St. Louis, a French trading post. From Chicago he traveled on foot across the wilderness to Philadelphia. He stopped and explored caves on the journey, and also drew a map of the country, and some very fine landscape views (for he was an artist). He was a native of Germany. Mr. F. came to this county in ’51, by river, crossing the Alleghany mountains in a boat, pulled by mountain R. R. engines. Has been School Director, Collector and Constable; married Sarah McCrachen, Dec. 11, ‘56, by whom he had 12 children, 9 of whom are living and all at home; both are members of the Christian Church. (pages 617-618, Ellisville Township section, submitted by Danni Hopkins)
John Fouts, farmer and wagon-maker, Ellisville, was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., Feb. 18, 1826, and is the son of Michael and Elizabeth (Kuhn) Fouts; the former is living in Iowa, and the latter is dead. He is twin brother to the father of Frank F. Fouts, of Deerfield, whose biography appears in this work. His uncle William Andyke, in about the year 1823 walked from Philadelphia, Pa., to Pittsburg, where he procured a canoe and rowed down the Ohio river to its mouth, thence up the Mississippi river to St. Louis, which was then just a French trading post. From St. Louis he rowed on and entered the mouth of the Illinois river, and up this stream to its head, and there abandoned his canoe and walked across to Chicago, which was, as St. Louis, a French trading post. From Chicago he traveled on foot across the wilderness to Philadelphia. He stopped and explored caves on the journey, and also drew a map of the country, and some very fine landscape views (for he was an artist). He was a native of Germany. Mr. F. came to this county in ’51, by river, crossing the Alleghany mountains in a boat, pulled by mountain R. R. engines. Has been School Director, Collector and Constable; married Sarah McCrachen, Dec. 11, ‘56, by whom he had 12 children, 9 of whom are living and all at home; both are members of the Christian Church. (pages 617-618, Ellisville Township section, submitted by Danni Hopkins)
age 75 years-2ms-27ds. h/o Sarah MCCRACKEN. son of Michael and Elizabeth KUEHN Fouts.
John Fouts, farmer and wagon-maker, Ellisville, was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., Feb. 18, 1826, and is the son of Michael and Elizabeth (Kuhn) Fouts; the former is living in Iowa, and the latter is dead. He is twin brother to the father of Frank F. Fouts, of Deerfield, whose biography appears in this work. His uncle William Andyke, in about the year 1823 walked from Philadelphia, Pa., to Pittsburg, where he procured a canoe and rowed down the Ohio river to its mouth, thence up the Mississippi river to St. Louis, which was then just a French trading post. From St. Louis he rowed on and entered the mouth of the Illinois river, and up this stream to its head, and there abandoned his canoe and walked across to Chicago, which was, as St. Louis, a French trading post. From Chicago he traveled on foot across the wilderness to Philadelphia. He stopped and explored caves on the journey, and also drew a map of the country, and some very fine landscape views (for he was an artist). He was a native of Germany. Mr. F. came to this county in ’51, by river, crossing the Alleghany mountains in a boat, pulled by mountain R. R. engines. Has been School Director, Collector and Constable; married Sarah McCrachen, Dec. 11, ‘56, by whom he had 12 children, 9 of whom are living and all at home; both are members of the Christian Church. (pages 617-618, Ellisville Township section, submitted by Danni Hopkins)
John Fouts, farmer and wagon-maker, Ellisville, was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., Feb. 18, 1826, and is the son of Michael and Elizabeth (Kuhn) Fouts; the former is living in Iowa, and the latter is dead. He is twin brother to the father of Frank F. Fouts, of Deerfield, whose biography appears in this work. His uncle William Andyke, in about the year 1823 walked from Philadelphia, Pa., to Pittsburg, where he procured a canoe and rowed down the Ohio river to its mouth, thence up the Mississippi river to St. Louis, which was then just a French trading post. From St. Louis he rowed on and entered the mouth of the Illinois river, and up this stream to its head, and there abandoned his canoe and walked across to Chicago, which was, as St. Louis, a French trading post. From Chicago he traveled on foot across the wilderness to Philadelphia. He stopped and explored caves on the journey, and also drew a map of the country, and some very fine landscape views (for he was an artist). He was a native of Germany. Mr. F. came to this county in ’51, by river, crossing the Alleghany mountains in a boat, pulled by mountain R. R. engines. Has been School Director, Collector and Constable; married Sarah McCrachen, Dec. 11, ‘56, by whom he had 12 children, 9 of whom are living and all at home; both are members of the Christian Church. (pages 617-618, Ellisville Township section, submitted by Danni Hopkins)
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