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S. N. SHOUP, section two, was born in Piqua county, Ohio, May 16, 1828; son of Jacob and Sarah Shoup, nee Downing, who came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1832, and engaged in farming. His father died in 1849, and mother in 1850. The subject of this sketch was only five years of age when he came to the county; his education was principally in the common schools, and educated to farm. In 1857, he was married to Alice J. Mourrer; she was born in Sangamon county; their family consists of seven children, viz: The living are, Willie H., Ettie May, Harry S., Lucia D., and three dead, Luella M., John I. and Sarah. In 1850 he came to the present farm, and continued to farm up to 1863, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment Illinois volunteers, and was one of the same until the close of the war.
In 1878, he was elected to the office of Sheriff of Sangamon county, and served two years, after which, he moved back on his farm. He now owns two hundred and eighty acres of land, situated on section two, which he now has under a good state of improvement, and worth $75 per acre.