JOHN W. SHULL was born in this township October 24, 1845, and is the sixth of nine children born to Lewis and Clementina (York) Shull, natives of Ohio. Lewis Shull came here in 1835, and here died July 4, 1853, a member of the Baptist Church ; Mrs. Lewis Shull died March 22, 1877, aged-sixty-two years. John W. Shull assisted on the home farm until he answered his country's call to arms in the fall of 1863, when be enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, and was in the Atlanta campaign. At the fight at Franklin, Tenn., he was wounded in the right foot, and during the war was badly broken down by exposure and hardship. After the fall of Atlanta, he was assigned to Gen. Thomas's division, and was honorably discharged April 19, 1866, when he returned to this township and resumed farming. March 1, 1867, he married Miss Margaret, daughter of Aaron Price, and born February 16, 1849. To this marriage were born the following children, viz.: Ida May, May 13, 1868; Ira M., May 16, 1869; Mary C,, January 15, 1871; Wesley A., September 2, 1873; Lola M., March 29, 1875; two sons who died in infancy; Maggie, September 15, 1878, and Omar, January 17, 1882. In March, 1872, Mr. Shull moved upon his present farm on Section 10. He is a Republican, and in 1875 held the office of Assessor; he has also held a number of other minor offices. He is a member of the G. A. R., and he and his wife are members of the Church of God.

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