. Historical and biographical . Christian Church. JESSE WILLCOX was born July 27, 1814, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and isthe fifth of the family of James and Rebecca ((-ampbell) Willcox, the former anative of Vermont, the latter of Virginia, and both of English descent. Jesse located in this township in 1853, where with a little aid in the beginning, andmuch industry and frugality afterward, he has been enabled to secure 245 acres, nowcontaining many njodern improvements. In ls;{5, lie married Eveline Hershman,who died July if, 1863, having been the mother of thirteen children—Lewis,
. Historical and biographical . Christian Church. JESSE WILLCOX was born July 27, 1814, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and isthe fifth of the family of James and Rebecca ((-ampbell) Willcox, the former anative of Vermont, the latter of Virginia, and both of English descent. Jesse located in this township in 1853, where with a little aid in the beginning, andmuch industry and frugality afterward, he has been enabled to secure 245 acres, nowcontaining many njodern improvements. In ls;{5, lie married Eveline Hershman,who died July if, 1863, having been the mother of thirteen children—Lewis, de-ceased; Jacob R., George M., Josiah, Abner C, Zcbedee, William, Edward, de- 588 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: ceased; John W., deceased; Charles, deceased; Martha, Mary and Mahala J. was formerly a Democrat, but is now a Republican, an earnest worker inthat party, and has filled several township positions. Mr. Willcox is a much re-spected citizen, and is, as Mrs. Wilcox was, a member of the Methodist WHEATFIELD TOWNSHIP—JASPER COUNTY. 589 WHEATFIELD TOWNSHIP. ELMER H. BROWN, farmer and cattle-raiser, was born April 13, 1838, inWill County, 111., and is a son of Simeon and Rachel (Weaver; Brown, natives ofNew York, and of English extraction. Elmer H. Brown is a throughbred attended the common schools in youth, and after his majority went to a schoolat Joliet for a time, and thence to Valparaiso, Ind. There he enlisted, in 1861, inthe Twentieth Indiana Regiment, and was engaged in eleven battles; he was mus-tered out at New Orleans in 1864, with martial honors and without injury. Afterreturning, he married Eraeline M. Patterson, August 18, 1864, to which union wereborn seven children—Merritt N., Clarence L., Cora E., Ina M., deceased; Earl E.,Stella A. and Bessie G. Without assistance, he has succeeded in getting a beginningin the cattle business in this county, whither he came in August, 1877; he nowmanufactures about 100 pounds of butte
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