Biography of Ephraim D. Raub, page 922.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Ephraim D. Raub was born in Stark County, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1846, the 
eleventh of thirteen children of Peter and Sophia (Grim) Raub.  His father 
was a native of Pennsylvania, born near Delaware, York County, Feb 22, 1801, 
and his mother of Maryland, born 18 Jan. 1806.  They were married in Stark 
County, April 19, 1825, and remained there till 1854, when they moved to De 
Kalb County, Ind., and settled on what is known as the Weirich farm, living 
there till the spring of 1880.  The father is now living with a son in 
Steuben County, and the mother with our subject.  Of their family of nine 
sons and four daughters, five are living.  Two of the sons were soldiers in 
the war of the Rebellion, one, Solomon, dying while in the service. He was a 
member of the One Hundredth Ohio Infantry, and was taken prisoner at 
Chickamauga and taken to Belle Island, thence to Richmond where he died Dec. 
28, 1863.  John B. served three years and returned home uninjured.  Ephraim 
D. Raub was eight years of age when his parents removed to De Kalb County.  
Here he received the most of his education, completing it at Roanoke 
Seminary, Huntington County.  After leaving school he taught school about 
three years, and then began the study of medicine with Dr. J.A. Cowan, of 
Auburn, and took his first course of lectures at Detroit, Mich.  He began 
his practice in the fall of 1874 at Salem Center, Steuben County, and 
later moved to Wells County where he remained several years.  In the 
winter of 1882 he gave up his practice for a time, and removed to the farm 
where he has since lived.  He was married in 1874 to Margaret E., eldest 
daughter of John and Jane Davis of this county.  They have four children---
Maude E., Jay D., Eda F. and Charles Dudley.

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