Wayne County

Jacob S. Hawk

1884 Biographical Sketches of Lamard Twp

JACOB S. HAWK farmer, P.O. Jeffersonville, was born January 13, 1828, in Vinton County, Ohio.

He is a son of Samuel Hawk, of Virginia.

Our subject was educated in Vinton County, Ohio. He left there for Wayne County, Ill., in the fall of 1852, where he still resides on his farm in Lamard Town ship. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and has been for a number of years. He is Justice of the Peace, and has been for twenty-four years.

He was married, March 2, 1854, in Wayne County, Ill., to Mary, daughter of Robinson Lappen, of Morgan County, Ill. She was born June 10, 1834, by whom the subject had nine children, four living, viz.,

  1. Mrs. Phebe J. Logan
  2. Ida
  3. Rachel
  4. Minnie

Our subject owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Politics, Republican.



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