HAWK, JACOB S., 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 Vin-ton 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., Mrs. Phebe J. Logan,
Ida, Rachel and Minnie.
Our subject owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock
raising. Politics, Republican.