Biography of John Shoub, pages 792 / 793. History of De Kalb County, Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885. John Shoub, section 7, Stafford Township, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1827. His father, Henry Shoub, was a native of Switzerland, and came to the United States in 1816. While on shipboard crossing the ocean, he made the acquaintance of Elizabeth Huffman, and they were married soon after reaching America. They settled in Wayne County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives. John Shoub was reared and educated in his native county, remaining with his parents till manhood. In 1849 he came to De Kalb County and remained till the spring of 1850, when he returned to Ohio, and April 13, 1851, was married to Mary A. Strole, daughter of Thomas Strole, an early settler of Stafford Township. The First eighteen months after their marriage they lived in Wayne County, Ohio, and then moved to De Kalb County in the spring of 1853 and bought forty acres of land where he now lives, at that time regarded as swamp land, and sold by the State to him as such. He now owns eighty acres of finely cultivated land, and is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. He takes great interest in the public welfare of his county, but never seeks official honors, although he served one term as County Commissioner. To him and his wife have been born three children---Thomas H., Sarah E. and Alice E. Sarah E. married Hugh H. Maxwell, and has one child---May. Alice married Walter S. Maxwell, and has two children---Lloyd L. and Mary D. Thomas is an intelligent, enterprising you man, and is in the employ of D. Appleton & Co., Publisher. Mr. and Mrs. Shoub are members of the Disciples church. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com