Jerome Shingledecker

SHINGLEDECKER, HAIN, RUE, WILEY, ADAMS

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Date: 5/16/2009 at 07:51:37

1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

page 724

JEROME SHINGLEDECKER, a success-
ful farmer of Leroy Township, was born
in Cass County, Michigan, near Cassop-
olis, the county seat, January 12, 1848. He
is the son of Isaac A. and Barbara (Hain)
Shingledecker. Isaac A. Shingledecker was
born in Miami County, Ohio, February 20,
1818; his father, Jacob Shingledecker, was a
native of Westmoreland County, Pennsyl-
vania, and was of German ancestry; he was a
soldier of the war of 1812, with the rank of
Captain. The mother of Isaac Shingledecker
was Mary Ann Rue, a native of West Vir-
ginia. Isaac A. was married to Barbara Ann
Hain March 14, 1844; she was a daughter
of Isaac and Elizabeth Hain, of German an-
cestry. After his marriage Isaac A. Shingle-
decker and wife resided in Ohio, and then
removed to Michigan, where they remained
until 1875 when they came to Audubon
County, Iowa. The subject of this biography,
Jerome Shingledecker, passed his youth and
school days in Michigan, where he was reared
on a farm, and well trained in all the details
of the management of a farm. In 1872 he
took a trip to California, where he remained
three years engaged in farming. He returned
to Michigan, and again went to California,
being fairly successful in his business oper-
ations. He returned once more to Michigan,
where he was married in 1882 to Sarah
Adams, a native of Michigan; she is a
daughter of Moses and Hannah (Wiley)
Adams, natives of Vermont and New York
respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Shingledecker
have had born to them two sons - Clarence
and Louis Adams. In the fall of 1883 they
removed from Michigan to Audubon County,
Iowa, and rented their present farm for three
years; at the end of that time they bought
the place, which they have made into an at-
tractive, comfortable home. Mr. Shingle-
decker has made many improvements, and
has been uniformly successful in the manage-
ment of his farm. While a resident of
Michigan he was a member of the Masonic
order at Cassopolis. Politically he is con-
servative, voting the Republican ticket, but
being his own judge as to who is best fitted
for positions of trust.