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Jacob died 8 August 1894, aged 56 · Charley L. born 25 April 1874
The tie, exactly: settler family of the German immigration, two generations in one sketch. Jacob Slaughterbeck came from Germany as a small child, owned 270 acres — all but fifty of them in Harris Township — and cleared the land himself; he died 8 August 1894, aged fifty-six. His wife was Maggie (McFaren) Slaughterbeck, born in Elkhart.
The second generation: their son Charley L. Slaughterbeck, born 25 April 1874 on the farm, owned 320 acres in Sections 28 to 30 by 1907 — "The Idlewild Stock Farm," raising on the order of three thousand bushels of corn, two thousand of oats and some fifty hogs a year, the sketch's figures printed as the sketch gives them. He married Laura Thornton on 4 February 1900. The southern sections' stock farming, in one named family across two generations, is as close as the record comes to a portrait of the township's mature farm economy, and it is printed at that representative strength.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), vol. 2, biographical sketches — the Slaughterbeck sketch whole.