Biography of Jonathan Shull, pages 546 / 547.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Jonathan Shull, farmer and stock-raiser, Concord Township, was born in 
Fayette County, Pa., April 21, 1838, a son of Daniel and Susan (Newcomer) 
Shull, the former a native of Maryland, born in January, 1810, and the 
latter born in 1815.  His parents were married Sept. 3, 1831, and in 1837 
moved to Wayne County, Ohio, where they lived till the fall of 1846, when 
they came to De Kalb County, Ind., and bought eighty acres of wild land, 
afterward adding to it 160 acres.  Here the father died Sept. 28, 1853.  He 
was an old line Whig in politics, and a member of the Disciple church, as 
was also his wife.  They had a family of nine children; eight lived till 
maturity and seven are now living---David, of Lansing , Mich.; Jonathan; 
Eliza, wife of H.J. Abel; Henry C., of Allen County; Sarah, deceased, wife 
of Abraham Cottrell, of Lansing, Mich., Lydia, wife of M.D. Hadsell, of 
Nebraska; Joseph; Harriet, wife of Lucius Palmer, of Allen County.  Their 
eldest child Mary, died in September, 1843, aged twelve years.  In 1857 
the mother married Asher Coburn, who died Sept. 11, 1874.  She now resides 
in Allen County.  Jonathan Shull was eight years of age when his parents 
moved to De Kalb County.  He was reared on a farm, receiving a good 
education in the district schools, completing it at the Newville Academy.  
When eighteen years of age he began teaching school, and taught winters for 
fourteen years, farming during the summer.  After his marriage he continued 
in the business of farming and teaching for eleven years, and then moved to 
Lansing, Mich., where he engaged in the mercantile business two years. Then 
he returned to De Kalb County, and added fifty acres to the old homestead 
farm where he now lives, which contains 130 acres, all under cultivation. 
Mr. Shull was married Dec. 25, 1862, to Maria M. Hadsell, a native of 
Trumbull County, Ohio, daughter of James and Mary (Abel) Hadsell.  The 
have had a family of seven children---Clara C. (wife of Lewis Lake), 
Cadmus C., Thurman H., Rosa (died in infancy), Henry C., Carl D., and 
Fred. N.  Mrs. Shull is a member of the Disciples church.  In politics Mr. 
Shull is independent.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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