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16 June 1812 (sketch head) / 16 June 1811 (the same sketch's family record) – 19 March 1901
The tie, exactly: a county figure whose line runs through this township — and the entry is careful about the strength. Howard's sketch seats Jacob Shimp in the county at large; his son John M. Shimp, below, is the Harris Township farmer. Jacob himself is carried here at county strength, not seated on Harris ground on his son's account — the seat test this section applies to the famous is applied to the settlers too.
The course, and the conflict inside it: born in Salem County, New Jersey, a son of Andrew Shimp (born 18 February 1767); taken at eleven to Warren County, Ohio, with his widowed mother; came to Indiana in 1833; died 19 March 1901 at the South Bend home of his daughter, Mrs. Cyrus B. Miller. His birth year is printed both ways because Howard's own sketch gives both — 1812 at its head, 1811 in the family record it quotes. What the county remembered him for, in the newspaper memorial Howard reprints, was political longevity: he cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson in 1832 and voted the Democratic ticket straight thereafter, and at his death the paper named him "the last Jackson voter in St. Joseph county." He was a Mason, buried under Terre Coupee Lodge No. 204 of New Carlisle. He married first Ann D—, in 1838 (she died 1840), and second, in 1842, Hannah Graham, who died 15 March 1889; among their children were John M. Shimp of this township and William D. Shimp, a former county recorder, whose office stands in the county record.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), vol. 2, biographical sketches — the Shimp sketch, with its internal 1811/1812 conflict preserved.