Biography of J.R. Shilling, page 544.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885

J.R. Shilling, farmer and stock-raiser, Concord Township, is a native of 
this township, born Nov. 4, 1851, a son of Solomon Shilling, one of the 
early settlers of De Kalb County.  He was reared a farmer but was given a 
good education, attending the district schools and later the Auburn and 
Spencerville High Schools.  Before reaching his majority he began teaching, 
and followed the vocation winters for eight years, working on the farm in 
the summer.  In February, 1880, he bought the farm in Concord Township where 
he now lives, which contains eighty acres of choice land all under cultivation.  
He is industrious and enterprising, and is one of the representative young 
farmers of the township.  He was married March 4, 1879, to Alice J. Gill, a 
daughter of John Gill.  They have one child, Cecil Guy, born April 5, 1880.  
Mr. and Mrs. Shilling are members of the Protestant Methodist church, and he 
has been Superintendent of the Sabbath-school the past three years.  In 
politics he is a Republican.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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