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Jacob D. Hampton
Jacob D. Hampton, second son of David and Jane Hampton, was born Nov. 14, 1820, in Wayne County, Ind. He was reared on his father's farm and obtained a common-school education. Jan. 25, 1844, he was married to Margaret Reynolds, born in North Carolina in 1823, a daughter of Job and Phoebe Reynolds who came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1839. Her mother was a minister in the Society of Orthodox Friends. She died at the age of eighty-six years. His father died aged sixty-eight years. He belonged to the Society of Friends. They had ten daughters and one son; all but two daughters survive. Mr. Hampton and wife have seven children — Oliver H., of Wayne County; Addison L., foreman of Sedgewick's Wire Fence Works of Richmond; Mattie C., widow of Alvin T. Birdsall; Emma, wife of Wilber J. Austin, of De Kalb County, Ind.; David C., a commercial traveler of De Kalb County, Ind.; Anna M. wife of Fred Butler, draughtsman in the City Mill Works of Richmond, and Horace G., at home.
Mr. Hampton has educated his children at Earlham College. He is engaged in agricultural pursuits and is making a specialty of horticulture, and is now filling his third term as President of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of the county. He has a fine residence and a farm of 120 acres of excellent land. He was one of the stockholders and incorporators of the Richmond and Newport Turnpike Company, also of the Union Pike Company. He was a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the latter company for fifteen years. In politics he is a staunch Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Orthodox Friends, of which he is Elder.
Our subject is of English descent, three brothers coming to America at an early day. One settled in the southern colonies, an ancestor of the celebrated Wade Hampton; the second brother we have no record of, and the third settled in Essex County, N. J., and became the ancestor of our subject. His great-grandfather, Jacob Hampton, a son of John Hampton, and grandson of John Hampton, who settled in Essex County, N. J., was born Aug. 9, 1731. His great-grandmother, Mary Hampton, was born in Essex County, N. J., Nov. 27, 1734, a daughter of John and Anna Terrill. Our subjects grandfather, Jacob Hampton, a son of Jacob and Mary Hampton, was born Feb. 5, 1759, in Essex County, N. J., where he was married March 2, 1783, to Eunice Dunham, who was born July 28, 1765, a daughter of Elisha and Elizabeth Dunham. They had twelve children — Andrew, born Sept. 7, 1785; Mary, Sept. 27, 1787; Abraham, Oct. 26, 1789; Anna, Dec. 5, 1791; Jehiel, Dec. 23, 1793; David, Dec. 27, 1795; Elizabeth, Nov. 4. 1797; Jacob, May 20, 1800; Elisha, May 8, 1803; Eleanor, June 5, 1805; Sarah and Eunice (twins), born June 12, 1809. Jacob Hampton moved with his family to Fayette County, Pa., in April, 1787, and in 1792 removed to Monongahela County, Va.
In 1808 the family settled in Warren County, Ohio, and in 1816 settled in Wayne County, Ind., where Jacob Hampton entered 200 acres of land, and his son Andrew entered 800 acres. He settled in New Garden Township, and died in 1842.
Our subject's father, David Hampton, came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1817, and in 1818 he was married to Jane, youngest of twelve children of Simon and Judith Moon, who came from North Carolina. She is the only surviving member of the family and is now in her eighty-seventh year. David Hampton commenced life empty handed but became one of the successful farmers of his time. He had eleven children — Lewis, of Wayne County; Jacob D., our subject; Dayton and Julia, deceased; Jehiel B., a coach-maker of Indianapolis, Ind.; Emily J., deceased, wife of Dr. J. M. Harris; she was Clerk of Friends' Yearly Meeting for twelve years; William M. and Simon M. (twins), the latter died in infancy; Sarah A., wife of Mahlon Johnson, of Morgan County, Ind.; John D. and Mahlon T. of Wayne County. David Hampton was a member of the Orthodox Friends. He died in June, 1855.
Source:
History of Wayne County, Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2