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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Jay ALPAUGH 

Transcribed exactly according to the original complete text by Joan Achille and Alice Stipak. 

[Surnames: ALPAUGH, TURNER] 

[Page 767] 

    
ALPAUGH, Jay.--The entire life of Jay Alpaugh has been spent on the farm in Fairview Township, Fulton County, where he was born February 15, 1880, and to the management of which he succeeded in 1903, upon the retirement from active life of his father, Sylvester Alpaugh, extended mention of whom may be found elsewhere in this work.* Mr. Alpaugh was educated in the public schools of Fairview Township, and at present operates the home farm of 120 acres, with forty-seven acres adjoining on the south. He is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, and derives a substantial income from land, the entire improvement of which is due to the efforts of his father and himself. 
    
Mr. Alpaugh is a quiet, unostentatious man, devoted to his farm and home, and having few interests outside of his immediate environment. December 21, 1904, he was united in marriage to Blanche Turner, a native of Fairview Township, where she was born May 12, 1881. 

*Note: I am not sure yet where in this book the "extended mention" of Sylvester Alpaugh is, since no biography for him appears in the alphabetized biography pages. Perhaps he is in the county history pages, which I hope to post at a later date.--Alice