Biographical Sketch of Jacob N. Wrinkle, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Jacob N. Wrinkle, a farmer and stock raiser of Liberty Township, is
a native of Knox County, Tenn., and was born in 1836.  He was the
third in the family of eight sons and two daughters born to John 
and Sophia A. Wrinkle, who were also natives of Knox County, Tenn.,
the former born in 1806 and the latter in 1811.  John Wrinkle was 
a farmer by occupation, and his father, George Wrinkle, whose birth-
place was Knox County, Tenn., was killed in a storm in that county
by a falling tree.  The latter, with his brother Jacob, and the
maternal grandfather of our subject, were soldiers in the War of 
1812.  John Wrinkle died in February, 1879.  His wife is still
living.  They were both members of the Baptist Church.  Jacob N.
Wrinkle attended the common schools and Woodlawn Academy, where he 
prepared to enter the State University, but trouble with his eyes
prevented further study.  January 5, 1857, he married Emma C.,
daughter of Leroy A. and Ann Eliza Kidd, natives of Virginia, who 
moved to North Carolina, and later to Knkoxville, Tenn., where the
mother died and the father still lives.  Mrs. Wrinkle is a native
of Virginia, and is the mother of thirteen children, ten of whom are
living.  In 1860 Mr. Wrinkle moved to Pulaski County, and has since 
lived most of the time in Liberty Township, having settled on his 
present farm in 1882.  He is one of the largest land owners in the
county, owning about 1,000 acres, and very little of which is under
cultivation.  He lost considerable property during the war, and in
1864 removed to Boonville, where he rented a farm for one year, and
then returned to Pulaski County.  In March, 1872, he removed to
Lebanon, where he lived one year, and was part of the time employed
as a clerk in the warehouse of Wallace Bros.  In 1879 Mr. Wrinkle
took a trip through the western country, and has twice, once in 
1866 and again in 1880, returned to his old home in Tennessee. 
Since 1862 he has auctioneered for the public in Laclede, Camden
and Pulaski Counties, where he is well known as a salesman, in 
which line he has been remarkably successful.  In politics he is
in sympathy with the Democratic party.  He is a member of the 
Agricultural Wheel.

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