. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... s and a- a usualthing men of honorable and humane im-. a- well as those of energy and thrift,have been patron- of husbandry. The freeoutdoor life of the farm has a decided ten-dency to foster and develop that independ-ence of mind ami self-reliance which char-acterize true manhood and no greater I an befall a boy than to be reared indose touch with nature in the healthful, life-inspiring labor of the fields. It has alwaysbeen the fruitful soil from which havespru
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... s and a- a usualthing men of honorable and humane im-. a- well as those of energy and thrift,have been patron- of husbandry. The freeoutdoor life of the farm has a decided ten-dency to foster and develop that independ-ence of mind ami self-reliance which char-acterize true manhood and no greater I an befall a boy than to be reared indose touch with nature in the healthful, life-inspiring labor of the fields. It has alwaysbeen the fruitful soil from which havesprung the moral bone and sinew of thecountry, ami the majority of our nationsgreat , wi-e -tale-men, renownedscholars and distinguished men of letterswere bom on the farm and are indebted torly influence for the distinction whichthey have attained. Among the substantial tiller- of thein Kosciusko county. Indiana, is the enter-prising gentleman under the caption ofwhose name this article is written. Jacob|. [Youp i- a native of Kosciusko county,having Urn born in the township of VanBuren, October -?-. 1856. Hi- paternal. JACOB TROUP RESIDENCE COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. 491 grandfather. Benjamin Troup, was a native of Pennsylvania, but left that state in earlymanhood, going to Canada and settling nearFort Erie, in the county of Wellington,where, in i8jo, his sun John was 1!. Troup was reared near, his birth-place and there married Elizabeth Shirk-,who bore him nine children: Mary A.,Peter, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Betsey, fudea,Jacob Wilson and William II. Afterliving in Canada until forty-live years ofage John 11. Troup moved to Elkhart county,Indiana, settling near the village of NewParis. After a short residence there hechanged his abode to Van Buren township,Kosciusko county, where he engaged in ag-ricultural pursuits, a vocation which he fol-lowed throughout the remainder of his subsequent!v returned to Union town-ship, Elkhart county, and thence to
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