A. P. RORABAUGH

A. P. RORABAUGH was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, October 26,1857. He is the son of Israel and Phoebe (McQuillin) Rorabaugh, natives of Pennsylvania, who are now residents of Jasper County, Iowa. When our subject was three years old his parents removed to Iowa and settled in Jasper County. Here he was reared to farm life, and educated in the public schools. He was the seventh son and seventh child in a family of twelve children, of whom nine are still living. When Mr. Rorabaugh had attained his twenty-first year he engaged in farming for himself, coming to Shelby County, where he purchased a tract of 120 acres of wild land in Jefferson Township. Here he has made many valuable improvements; he has erected a beautiful frame residence, also barns for stock and grain, and has planted a grove. He devotes himself to agricultural pursuits exclusively, and is a live, energetic man, standing in the front ranks of Shelby County's rising young citizens. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and takes an active interest in the welfare and advancement of the community in which he lives. Mr. Rorabaugh was united in marriage, January 3, 1887, to Miss Emma Shafenberg, a daughter of Fred and Elizabeth (Cook) Shafenberg, natives of Germany. She was born in Elkhart County, Indiana, March 28, 1863. Mr. Rorabaugh and wife are the parents of one child - Juanetia.

Source: 1889 Biographical History of Shelby County, Iowa, pg. 329. Transcribed and submitted by Marthann Kohl-Fuhs.