Arthur A. Shoup
Arthur A. Shoup. proprietor of a farm of one hundred and nine acres in Beavercreek township, rural mail route No. 8 out of Dayton, was born on that farm on August 5, 1872, son of Daniel M. and Maria (Wampler) Shoup, the former of whom was born in that same township, a son of Mozes W. Shoup, a minister of the Dunkirk church and one of the largest landowners among the pioneers of that section, a son of George Shoup, who had come to the then Territory of Ohio from Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1796, and had entered two sections of land in what later came to be organized as Beavercreek township, this county. The Shoups are of Swiss origin. Daniel M. Shoup was born on September 10, 1822. and in August, 1844, married Maria Wampler, who was born in Starke county, Ohio. February 24. 1827, but who at the time of her marriage was living in Montgomery county, whence her parents, Philip and Catherine (Royer) Wampler. had moved when she was little more than an infant. The Wamplers came to this state from Carroll county, Maryland. Ten years after his marriage Daniel M. Shoup bought the farm on which his son Arthur is now living and there spent the rest of his life. He also, following the precepts of his father, was a minister of the Dunker church. He had five sisters, Mrs. Charlotte Coy, Mrs. Catherine Gearhart, Mrs. Sarah Wampler, Mrs. Harriet Brubaker and Mrs. Rebecca Ann Darst. His wife died in 1900 and he survived until 1911.
Reared on the home farm, Arthur A. Shoup completed his schooling in the Beavercreek township high school. After his marriage in 1894 he established his home on the home place, taking charge of the same for his father, and after the latter's death in 1911 bought the interests of the other heirs in one hundred and nine acres of the place, including the old home, and still lives there. He gives considerable attention to the breeding of highgrade live stock and also maintains a herd of Guernsey cattle for dairy purposes. On his farm is one of the best apple orchards in the county. Mr. Shoup is a Republican and for four years served as a member of the township board of education. He is a member and one of directors of the Greene County Improvement Association.
On November 14, 1894, Arthur A. Shoup was united in marriage to Anna Ozias, who was born in Preble county, this state, daughter of R. J. W. and Jane (Markey) Ozias, and to this union six children have been born. Grace, wife of Lawrence Howard, of Bath township, this county; Daniel, who took two years at Ohio State University and in the spring of 1918 enlisted in the aviation corps of the National Army, and Elizabeth, Charles, Ruth and Rebecca.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918