Jacob P. Wilkinson
Isaac A. Wilkinson, the father of the above, was born in Virginia in 1805, came with his father, Thomas Wilkinson, to Champaign Co., O., in 1805, from there to Perry Township, Shelby County, O., in 1818, where in March, 1831, he married Ruth R. Persinger. They raised a family of eight children, viz., Jacob P., Thomas F., Wm. R., George P., Isaac N., Joseph E., Mary, and Laura J. Of this number five are still living. Wm. R. was killed at the battle of Chickamauga; George died in the hospital in the army. Mr. Wilkinson died April, 1862; his wife died in 1879. Jacob P., whose name is at the head of this sketch, was born in Perry Township in 1832; he resided on the farm with his father until he arrived at his majority, when he engaged in the mercantile and grain trade, which he followed about fifteen years—he, with his father, built the first grain warehouse in the town of Pemberton. After quitting the grain trade he, together with his brother Newton, bought a farm, which he afterward sold his interest in to his brother and bought where he now lives, on section 12. In 1865 he married Miss Louisa A. Dunham. By this union they have two children, viz., Nettie M. and Bertie L.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883