SHOOP, J.P.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record o
Montgomery, Parke & Fountain Counties, Indiana (Chapman Brothers, 1893)
Page 271
J. P. SHOOP is proprietor of one of the largest liver stables in Rockville and has a good share of the patronage of this place. He is one of the enterprising young businessmen of Rockville and has been quite successful in his present business enterprise. His birth occurred in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania July 10, 1855. He is a son of John Shoop who was a native of the same county in the Keystone State where he was reared to mature years. In the late war he was in the service for 3 years and was severely wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. His wife who was before her marriage Miss Sarah Diedrich (DIETRICH) died about the close of the war, leaving 5 children, our subject being the 2nd in order of birth. The father was called from the shores of time in 1886. Our subject was reared in the county of his birth until reaching his 18th year. His educational privileges being somewhat limited in his youth, he has had to rely mainly upon experience, observation, private reading and study. He was 18 when he left his father's rooftree and came to Montgomery County, Indiana where he engaged in working for his uncle, J.L. Diedrich, who was engaged in the livery business at Waveland. While in his employ he acquired a practical knowledge of the business and at the expiration of 11 years of faithful service in that place he came to Rockville. For 8 months he was in the employ of NW CUMMINGS at the end of which time he started in business for himself at Montezuma. After 3 years of successful trade in that village, Mr. Shoop returned to Rockville, buying out his former employer, N. W. Cummings the date of the transaction in 1887. Mr. Shoop was united in holy matrimony in the year 1881 with Miss Ella DAVIS, whose father, Joseph Davis was killed during the late war prior to which time he was a resident of Montgomery County. Two children grace the union of our subject and wife, Cleona and Claude. The gentleman of whom this is a brief life record is much interested in civic societies, being a member of the Knights of Pythias, of the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons and also of the Eastern Star of the Masonic Lodge. - transcribed by kbz