Source: Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana, 1893, page 716
John M., the father of the subject of this sketch, and of Aaron S. Zook, a lawyer, of Goshen, Ind., spent his early life as a teamster over the mountains of Pennsylvania. He was a young man when the family moved to Ohio, and there and in his native State he obtained a practical and useful education and eventually became a school teacher. He came to Elkhart county, Ind., and settled on a school section in the woods, which he farmed until 1862, when he traded his farm and located in Clinton township, where he reared his family and tilled the soil until his death, June 6, 1872. He succeeded in accumulating a fair amount of worldly goods and a as a public-spirited and enterprising citizen, he had not his superior in his section of the country. He was first a Whig in politics, later a Republican, and in the neighborhood in which he lived, he held a prominent position and a number of official places. He was extremely active in educational work and managed to give his children good educational advantages. His wife was born in Huntington County, Penn., a daughter of Michael Shellenberger, who were of Pennsylvania stock, but of Swiss descent. They were among the early residents of Richland county and there reared a family of children who were named as follows: Rebecca, born November, 1823; John; David; Baltzer; Sarah and Elizabeth. The father died in Ohio and the mother returned to Pennsylvania, where she was called from life.
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John M., the father of the subject of this sketch, and of Aaron S. Zook, a lawyer, of Goshen, Ind., spent his early life as a teamster over the mountains of Pennsylvania. He was a young man when the family moved to Ohio, and there and in his native State he obtained a practical and useful education and eventually became a school teacher. He came to Elkhart county, Ind., and settled on a school section in the woods, which he farmed until 1862, when he traded his farm and located in Clinton township, where he reared his family and tilled the soil until his death, June 6, 1872. He succeeded in accumulating a fair amount of worldly goods and a as a public-spirited and enterprising citizen, he had not his superior in his section of the country. He was first a Whig in politics, later a Republican, and in the neighborhood in which he lived, he held a prominent position and a number of official places. He was extremely active in educational work and managed to give his children good educational advantages. His wife was born in Huntington County, Penn., a daughter of Michael Shellenberger, who were of Pennsylvania stock, but of Swiss descent. They were among the early residents of Richland county and there reared a family of children who were named as follows: Rebecca, born November, 1823; John; David; Baltzer; Sarah and Elizabeth. The father died in Ohio and the mother returned to Pennsylvania, where she was called from life.
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Source: Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana, 1893, page 716
John M., the father of the subject of this sketch, and of Aaron S. Zook, a lawyer, of Goshen, Ind., spent his early life as a teamster over the mountains of Pennsylvania. He was a young man when the family moved to Ohio, and there and in his native State he obtained a practical and useful education and eventually became a school teacher. He came to Elkhart county, Ind., and settled on a school section in the woods, which he farmed until 1862, when he traded his farm and located in Clinton township, where he reared his family and tilled the soil until his death, June 6, 1872. He succeeded in accumulating a fair amount of worldly goods and a as a public-spirited and enterprising citizen, he had not his superior in his section of the country. He was first a Whig in politics, later a Republican, and in the neighborhood in which he lived, he held a prominent position and a number of official places. He was extremely active in educational work and managed to give his children good educational advantages. His wife was born in Huntington County, Penn., a daughter of Michael Shellenberger, who were of Pennsylvania stock, but of Swiss descent. They were among the early residents of Richland county and there reared a family of children who were named as follows: Rebecca, born November, 1823; John; David; Baltzer; Sarah and Elizabeth. The father died in Ohio and the mother returned to Pennsylvania, where she was called from life.
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John M., the father of the subject of this sketch, and of Aaron S. Zook, a lawyer, of Goshen, Ind., spent his early life as a teamster over the mountains of Pennsylvania. He was a young man when the family moved to Ohio, and there and in his native State he obtained a practical and useful education and eventually became a school teacher. He came to Elkhart county, Ind., and settled on a school section in the woods, which he farmed until 1862, when he traded his farm and located in Clinton township, where he reared his family and tilled the soil until his death, June 6, 1872. He succeeded in accumulating a fair amount of worldly goods and a as a public-spirited and enterprising citizen, he had not his superior in his section of the country. He was first a Whig in politics, later a Republican, and in the neighborhood in which he lived, he held a prominent position and a number of official places. He was extremely active in educational work and managed to give his children good educational advantages. His wife was born in Huntington County, Penn., a daughter of Michael Shellenberger, who were of Pennsylvania stock, but of Swiss descent. They were among the early residents of Richland county and there reared a family of children who were named as follows: Rebecca, born November, 1823; John; David; Baltzer; Sarah and Elizabeth. The father died in Ohio and the mother returned to Pennsylvania, where she was called from life.
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