Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Yerkes, B. 1841 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   B. Yerkes, farmer, Covington, was born in Wabash township, Fountain county,
Indiana, in 1841, and is the son of Jacob and Ann (Shoemaker) Yerkes, who came
to the county in 1839. They have spent a useful life in improving and helping to
build up all local enterprises in the neighborhood where they lived. Mr. Yerkes
was raised on his father's farm, and is now one of the leading farmers of Wabash
township. He owns 615 acres of fine land, well stocked and improved, as a reward
for his own exertions. In 1867 he married Miss Martha E. Marlatte, daughter of
Jacob and Cynthia Marlatte, who came to the county in an early day. Mrs. Yerkes
was born in 1845. Their family consists of Emma, Jacob, Charles, and Sherman.

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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