Biography of Jacob Grogg, page 876.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Jacob Grogg, retired farmer, is a native of Ohio, born in Canton, Stark 
County, Feb. 14, 1814, a son of Solomon and Mary (Snyder) Grogg. When 
twenty-one years of age he began to learn the miller’s trade in Rufner 
Mills, near Canton. In 1840 he took charge of the Roop Mills at Pekin, and 
remained one year.  The next ten years he took charge of the Hostetter and 
Roop mills, and in 1851 came to Indiana and prospected in De Kalb County 
where he had two brother, Peter and Daniel.  He purchased land in what is 
now Keyser Township, an in the spring of 1852 moved his family to the wilds 
of De Kalb County.  He cleared and cultivated his farm, residing on it till 
the fall of 1869, when he moved to Auburn, although he still owns it. He has 
never aspired to official honors but has at different times been elected to 
positions of trust and responsibility.  In November, 1937, he was married to 
Sarah Becher, of Canton, Ohio.  They have had five children, but two are 
living---Julia Ann, wife of Isaac W. Bard, of Dayton, Ohio and Melinda, 
widow of Frank N. Barclay.  Solomon died at Rufner Mills, Ohio, July 3, 
1845, aged three years; Adam died December, 1865, aged twenty-eight years; 
and Sadie, Feb. 11, 1876, aged twenty-three years.  Mr. and Mrs. Grogg are 
members of the Lutheran church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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