Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1880 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Monticello Mersld, November 18th.

JACOB MARKLE.

Thß life of Jacob Markle, whose death we announced in last week’s Herald, was an eventful one. He was born ia the city of Baltimore in the year 1803, and was at his death in the 78th year of his age. At the age of sixteen he shipped as a sailor, and followed that vocation for about fifteen years. At the death or his father, his mother having died some years before, he abandoned his sailor life, and with his brother George and sister Jane, emigrated to the west, bringing with them an immense stock of dry goods, and locating at Delphi, with a branch at West Point, Tippecanoe county, and by dint of industry and energy succeeded In build ing up a thriving business. But to be a successful merchant was not the ambition of the man; having been used to active out door life, the confinement to the store-room was irk some in the extreme, and having married to Miss Elizabeth Royster, one of the Belles of the new country’, and a truly good and accomplished woman, he sold his interest in the* store and with a part of the proceeds purchased a fajm and invested the remainder in land, which was then to be had from the government at $1.25 per acre. In 1850 he removed to Jasper county and began the improvement of some of the lands he had entered, but ere he had fairly begun, in 1852, he was nominated by the demdbrats as their candidate for county treasurer, elected, and again in 1854, re-elocted. At the close of his second term he removed south and located at Atlanta,Georgia,where I he remained until the breaking out' of the rebellion, when he returned ■ and located here in Monticello. In i all this time his ventures had been j successful, and he had accumulated I a comfortable competency, but a *

succession of reverses, th© first ©f which was the purchase ©f a woolen mill in Bartholomew county, ip litigation at the time of purchas, and which was burned down before he eouid realize any profit from it. This followed by an equally unprofitabla investment here; the building of a woolen factory, which, the expensive machinery purchased for it x required an outlay beyond his means and, as a consequence. all was lost. The friends he had made in the days of his prosperity, and to whom h? had entrusted large s urns of money now refused to repay the favors he had shown them, and long and frniiless litigation followed, leaving him etill poorer than ‘‘before. Notwithstanding all his reverses and the varied vicissitudes ofhis life and fortunes he was a man of unswerving integrity, and through all was true co his friends and generous to his enemies.