Replogle, Jacob

Posted By: Tom Midlam
Date: 26 December 2001

Source: A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF DARKE COUNTY OHIO, published in Chicago by the Lewis Publishing Company, 1900. p. 726-727

Among the old and honored residents of Mississinawa township, Darke county, Ohio, none stand higher in public esteem than Jacob Replogle, who for many years has successfully engaged in farming on section 14. He was born in Germantown, Montgomery county, Ohio, June 30, 1821, and is a son of Philip Replogle, a yeoman farmer of Pennsylvania, who was born in that state about 1777 and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1853. About 1798 the father married Elizabeth Gothard, who was born in the ill-fated city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1780. About 1815 they came to Germantown, this state, floating down the Ohio river on a flatboat to Cincinnati. At that time the father was in humble circumstances. He never accumulated wealth, though he was a natural mechanic and skilled workman, very strong and industrious. In 1848 he purchased eighty acres of the farm in Mississinawa township, Darke county, where our subject now resides, paying for the same in state bonds at one dollar and a half per acre. When he located here his nearest neighbor was seven miles away and the country round about was almost an unbroken forest. He added to his farm until he had one hundred and fifteen acres. In his family were fourteen children, four sons and ten daughters, all of whom reached manhood or womanhood, with the exception of one daughter.

Our subject is the eleventh in order of birth in this family and is now the only survivor. He had very poor educational advantages during his boyhood, but has mad the most of his opportunities throughout life and is now a well informed man. He owns a good farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which includes the old homestead, and has successfully engaged in its operation, being a systematic and thorough farmer. One year he raised fifteen hundred bushels of wheat, and has raised sixty bushels of corn per acre upon a tract of seventy acres.

On the 16th of March, 1843, Mr. Replogle was united in marriage with Miss Abbie Jones, Who was born October 1, 1826, in Butler county, Ohio, five miles from Oxford, and is a daughter of Abram and Rebecca (Pierson) Jones, farming people, who moved from New Jersey to Ohio in a covered wagon and settled in Butler county. In the Jones family were eleven children, six sons and five daughters, of whom David died at the age of twelve years, Polly at the age of eighteen, after which there was not a death in the family for sixty years; but only three of the children are now living, namely: Edward, aged eighty years, who is living in Mercer county, Ohio; Abbie, the wife of our subject; and James, aged seventy-three years, who is living in Gibson, Mercer county. The mother was a widow for many years and died in 1883, at the advanced age of ninety-two.

To Mr. and Mrs. Replogle were born fourteen children, of whom twelve are still living, namely: Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Rohr, of Mississinawa township; Rebecca Ann, the wife of William Wintrade; Margaret, the wife of John L. Whitney; Mary, the wife of Curtis A. Richardson; Harriet A., the wife of Charles State; F. Marion, a physician of Lightsville; Martha E., the wife of E. Richardson; George Washington, who lives near Rossville; Abraham Lincoln, a farmer of Darke county; William Grant, also a resident of Darke county; Jacob S., who married Jennie McOwens, and lives on the home farm; and Sarah A., the wife of Ellsworth King. With one exception all have children of their own.

In early life Mr. Replogle was a fine marksman and a great hunter, killing as many as seven deer in one day. His father was also fond of that sport. In his political affiliations our subject is a stanch Republican, and he takes an active and commendable interest in public affairs.

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