Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Roads, Jacob 1798 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Jacob Roads, farmer, Covington, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania,
March 1, 1798. In 1810 he removed with his parents to Warren county, Ohio. On
July 7, 1814, his father, Samuel Roads, was accidentally killed while repairing
a saw-mill. At the age of twenty-one years the subject of this sketch went to
Pennsylvania, where he served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade. In 1839
he came west and settled in Fountain county, and bought property in Wabash
township and began farming. He has been a hard worker, and is the owner of 247
acres of finely improved land, on which he has resided for thirty-one years. In
1870 Mr. Roads sold his farm at $65 per acre, since which time he has resided on
a small property which he owns, and which is located about one mile southeast of
Covington. Mr. Roads has served the county as commissioner for three years. He
is a democrat, though he was formerly a whig, and afterward a republican. In
1820 he was married to Miss Mary Fox, a native of Maryland, who was born in
1799; she died September 24, 1822. In 1832 he was again married, to Miss Amanda
Robinson, a native of New Jersey, she being born January 28, 1814. Mr. Roads has
reared a family of eight children, two sons and one daughter by his first wife,
and three sons and two daughters by his present wife.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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