Biography of the Timberlain Brothers, pages 504 / 505.  History De Kalb County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing 
Company, Chicago, 1885.

Isaac and David Timberlain were natives of New Jersey, sons of Jonathan and Hannah Timberlain.  Their boyhood 
was spent in Columbiana County, Ohio, where their parents located in the early settlement of the county.  There 
they grew to manhood, having only such educational advantages as the early schools afforded.  In 1851 they came 
together to Indiana and settled in Butler Township, De Kalb County, purchasing eighty acres of wild land.  They 
erected a log cabin and began clearing their land.  Here Isaac lived till his death and David still lives.  Isaac was 
married in Ohio to Elizabeth Sheets, and to them were born eight children, seven of whom are living---Hannah, Mary, 
Eliza, Silas, David, Elizabeth and Rebecca.  One died in infancy.  Isaac died Dec. 11, 1879, aged nearly sixty-nine.  
David is aged about seventy-eight years.  In politics they were both staunch supporter of the principles of the 
Democratic party.  Like other early settlers when they came to De Kalb County they were in limited circumstances, 
but their eagerness to procure a home inspired them with energy and they went to work with a determination to 
overcome all difficulties, and were rewarded with good crops and a full larder, and finally by a competency of old 
age.

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