Adams D. Raub

    Adams D. Raub, merchant and live-stock dealer, is a native of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, born in 1840, and a son of John and Caroline (Earl) Raub, both natives of Ohio, who came about 1834 to this State and located near La Fayette. at the age of nine years, our subject went to La Fayette with Adams Earl, with whom he has been engaged in business of various kinds. He was in the grain business in 1860, at Wea Station, and in 1864, located in Hickory Grove Township, where Fowler now stands; he had also an interest with Mr. Earl in land, owning about 10,000 acres. When the Cincinnati, La Fayette & Chicago Railroad was built, they located at Earl Park, and operated an elevator, under the firm name of Raub & Earl with a capacity of nearly 1,000,000 bushels. He was also interested with Mr. Earl and Mr. Follansbee in general merchandise business, averaging an annual trade of $60,000, and also with Mr. Earl in breeding Hereford and short-horn cattle, having about 125 thoroughbreds; they can furnish the ranch trade of the West with the above named stock.

    In 1874, Mr. Raub was wedded to Mrs. Nannie D. Jones, daughter of Mr. Hardesty, and a native of Greencastle. This marriage has given being to one child -Ruth D. One sister of Mrs. Raub married Daniel Voorhes, and another J.  P. Luse.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.