Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

JACOB A. EPLER, farmer; P.O. Virginia City; for many years one of
the thrifty agriculturalists of his county; is a son of David
Epler, who was the son of Abraham, of whom we find more
particular mention in a sketch of the Epler family, elsewhere in
this work.  David Epler was the second son of his father, a
[illegible line].  He came to Cass County a short time previous
to the deep snow of 1830, located in North Prairie, on Section
35, Tp.  17, Range 11, where he improved a farm of about 640
acres.  He married Miss Rachel R. Johnson, of Louisville, Ky.,
and a native of that State.  They raised a family of eight
children, viz.:  Joseph A., John T. (deceased), Nancy A., now
Mrs. John Milton Epler (see sketch), Mary A., James M., an able
lawyer of Jacksonville, William F., Assistant Cashier in the
First National Bank of Jacksonville, Jacob A., and Rachel L., now
Mrs. John McHenry, a farmer of Cass County and a resident of
Virginia.  Jacob A., our subject, spend his latter school-days in
the Illinois College at Jacksonville, and from that time has been
a successful farmer.  He lives in Virginia, and has for several
years been connected with the banking interests of his town. 
Nov. 13, 1861, he married Miss Sarah, daughter of Oswell
Thompson, a native of Ohio, and one of the earliest pioneers of
Cass County.  Mr. and Mrs. Epler have three children:  Fannie,
M., Nancy J., and Albert E.

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