Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Yerkes, Allen 1843 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Allen Yerkes, farmer, Covington, was born in Wabash township, Fountain
county, in 1843, and is the son of Jacob and Ann (Shoemaker) Yerkes, who were
natives of Pennsylvania. His father was born May 11, 1809, and came to Fountain
county in 1839 and settled in Wabash township, where he died in 1866. The
subject of this sketch was raised on a farm, and received a good common school
education, and has followed agricultural pursuits all his life. He owns the old
homestead, consisting of 207 acres. In 1866 he married Miss Serena Alexander,
daughter of James and Sarah (Mitchell) Alexander. Her father is a native of
Indiana, and her mother of Pennsylvania, and came to Boone county, Illinois, in
an early day. Mr. Yerkes has two sons, James T. and Jones I.

Additional Comments:

Wabash Township

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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