Jacob C. Stuckey
 

JACOB C. STUCKEY, one of Boone county's commissioners, serving on his second term, is a native of Ohio and was born in Fayette county, April 18, 1834. His parents were John and Mary J. (Coyner) Stuckey, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively and of German descent. They were among the early pioneers of Fayette county, Ohio. The father was three times married and was the father of seven children, viz: Eliza J., and Jacob C., our subject, by the first marriage, and Elizabeth, Samuel W., John D., Matthew F., and Isabelle by the second marriage. J. C. Stuckey was reared on the farm and educated in the district schools of the vicinity until about nineteen years old, when he attended the Ohio Wesleyan university for some time, and then engaged in teaching school for several years. In 1858 he went to Louisa county, Iowa, and taught school four months the following winter, then returned to Ohio and in the fall of 1859 came to Boone county, Ind., and settled on the same farm on which he now lives, which farm his father had previously purchased. On August 21, 1862, he married Elizabeth E., daughter of Squire and Mary (Piper) Long. Mrs. Stuckey was born in Boone county, Ind., August 17, 1838, and is one of six children, viz: Samuel S., deceased; James C.; Joseph R., died in infancy; Joseph R.; Elizabeth E.; and Squire G., deceased. Six children also were born to Mr. and Mrs. Stuckey, viz: Mary B., born July 2, 1863 married William A. Smith and died May 28, 1887; Ella J., born September 27, 1865, married Perry H. Binford and lives in Boone county; John R., born June 16, 1867; Myrtle A., born January 26, 1870; Emma E., born December 25. 1871 and died April 3, 1888; Samuel L., born June 30,1879. The Stuckey family are old residents of Washington township, if not altogether pioneers, and each year added to their residence here, adds to the respect in which they are held by the community.

Transcribed by: Chris Brown
Source: "A Portrait And Biographical Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.," page 499, published in 1895 by A. W. Bowen & CO. Chicago