Biography of Daniel Shilling, page 149.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the 
editorial supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and 
William H. McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Daniel Shilling, for many years a resident and progressive farmer in 
Jackson Township, DeKalb County, is representative of one of the first 
families established in Concord Township. Mr. Shilling owns a fine farm of 
about 141 1/2 acres in sections 12 and 13 of Jackson Township.
   He was born four miles from Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, October 19, 
1849, a son of Solomon Shilling.  Solomon Shilling, long prominent in 
DeKalb County, was born in the same locality of Stark County in 1823, a 
son of Adam and Mary (Roan) Shilling.  Adam Shilling came to DeKalb County 
at an early date and entered and bought extensive tracts of government 
land in Concord Township.  He gave each of his sons, 160 acres and each of 
his daughters, eighty acres.  Solomon Shilling came to DeKalb County to 
take possession of one of these quarter sections of wild land in 1850.  
This land was in section 19 in Concord Township. He built a log cabin, 
cleared and improved, and by his work and good management was accounted 
one of the wealthy men of the township.  He became an extensive shipper of 
livestock, and shipped the first carload of stock over the Baltimore & 
Ohio Railroad from this locality to Chicago.  He owned about 400 acres of 
good farm land.  In 1872 he was elected trustee of Concord Township and 
re-elected in 1874.  He and his wife were members of the Methodist 
Protestant Church.  Solomon Shilling married Esther Bliler, who was born 
in Pennsylvania.  They were the parents of six sons and six daughters, one 
daughter dying in infancy, and the eleven to reach maturity being; Daniel, 
Josephus R., William, Mary, Sarah, Adam, Francis, Hiram E., John, Vienna 
L. and Dora. Eight of these children are still living.
   Daniel Shilling grew up on the farm home in Concord Township and has 
been a resident of DeKalb County since early infancy.  He attended 
district school and lived at home to the age of twenty-six. On November 9, 
1875, he married Annetta Widney.   At the time of his marriage his bought 
his present home farm, and Mrs. Shilling died there in 1880.  She was the 
mother of three sons; Adam E., who was liberally educated, was a teacher 
and died at the age of twenty-six; Samuel H., who married Maud Stafford, 
lives in Jackson Township and has a daughter, named Bonnie; and Frankie, 
who died the year after his mother.
   Mr. Shilling has long been active in the Methodist Protestant Church 
and also in its Sunday  school.  He is a republican, is affiliated with 
the Knights of Pythias, and has been a liberal factor in his community, 
being especially patriotic in behalf of the various causes for the recent 
war.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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