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Capt. Jacob Wayne Pickinpaugh, farmer and stock raiser, was born in what is now Noble County, Ohio, April 22, 1820. His father, Peter Pickinpaugh, was born in Greene County, Penn., December 9, 1801, and grew to manhood in his native State. He went to Ohio when a young man, and began life working for $6 per month. After he had accumulated a small sum, he bought land in Morgan (now Noble) County, in about 1823. In 1828 he was married to Jane Philips, a native of Guernsey County, Ohio. He died November 25, 1884, upon the place he first settled. Of the family of three sons and three daughters all grew to maturity, and all but one daughter are now living. J. W. passed his boyhood and youth in Noble County, Ohio, and was there married June 22, 1851, to Elizabeth Jane Walters, daughter of Jonah Walters. Mrs. Pickinpaugh was born and reared in Noble County, where she lived until March, 1860, They then moved to Putnam County, Mo., where Mr. Pickinpaugh now lives. He at first bought and entered land, and now owns 258 acres, all fenced, and about eighty acres well improved and cultivated. He has a good orchard of 200 select apple trees, and other varieties of small fruits, and lives in a commodious two-story building, surrounded with good outbuildings. Mr. Pickinpaugh enlisted in Capt. Bogle’s company of Home Guards in 1861, of which he was made second lieutenant. After two months’ service he raised a company of six-months men, and on October 15, 1861, went to Canton, on the Mississippi River. He served three months under Col. Woodard, in the Twenty-first Missouri Infantry, and was mustered out in February, 1862. In the summer of the same year he enlisted in the enrolled militia, going to Macon City, and from there to Glasgow. Late in the same year he was mustered out at Macon City. Capt. Pickinpaugh and his company were in the first fight which occurred in Schuyler County. The battle occurred at Lancaster. While he and a detachment of his men were out of the city; getting hay and corn for their horses, they were surprised and vigorously attacked by a company of Confederates, who were routed with the loss of their captain and four men, while the Federal loss was only two men. Capt. Pickinpaugh is a Republican in politics, and as such has served in several local official positions. His first wife died in December, 1885, by whom five children were born: Napoleon, Dr. George J. (of Mendota), Wallace H. (of Kansas), Mary Ann J. (wife of Charles Quigley, of Iowa), and William S. T. (a county teacher). The first four named are married. January 9, 1887, Mr. Pickinpaugh was united in marriage, in Putnam County, to Miss Angeline Johnson, a native of Wood County, W. Va., and daughter of John E. Johnson, formerly of Canada.