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J. F. Shoaff was born in Miami County, Ohio September 15, 1831, one of eleven children born to John P. and priscilla (Freeman) Shoaff, natives of Pennsylvania and OHio. John P. Shoaff was a farmer by occupation, but a milller by trade. He married Miss Freeman in Miami County, and when the thrid of their eleven children was born, emigrated, in 1836, to Eel River Township, Allen County, Ind. (five miles from the line of this township and county), ad located in the woods. At that time there were only three white families in the township, and the country was overrun with Indians, deer, wolves, wild cats and lynxes. After a couple of years' experience in the widlerness, Mr. Shoaff relinquisehed farming and began dealing in stocks, which have since engaged his attention. He has accumulated property, valued at $75 ,000, all by his own exertions. His wife died May 1, 1881, and he still lives on his homestead at the advanced age of seventy-eight. Our subject, J. F. Shoaff, was reared a farmer, and in November, 1857, married Martha Wor, who died March 18, 1868. He married his present wife, Annie E. Johnston, September 11, 1872, and to their union have been born two children--Priscilla J. and Eliza J. He employed himself in farming and tock-raising until he came to Churubusco, in July 1874, where he is doing business as a broker an dealer in real estate. He owns 466 Acres of land in Allen County, besides some good property in town. In politics, he is a Democrat, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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