SAMUEL FULLENWIDER, son of J. N. and Sarah A. Fullenwider, was born in this county, June 21, 1851, and was brought up as a farmer. His grandfather (Fullinwider) came from Kentucky, entered land near Mechanicsburg, returned to bring his family, and was taken sick and died in Kentucky July 17, 1834; his wife came the same year with her nine children, and improved the land entered by her husband, and this land is now occupied by Jacob Fullenwider. On May 27, 1875, he was married to Miss Luella Elkin, daughter of John G. and Eveline (McNabb) Elkin, who was born July , 1853; her father was born in Xenia, Ohio, March 28, 1820, and her mother in this county, September 15, 1827. Mr. and Mrs. F. have two children: Jesse Arthur, born June 29, 1876, and John Elkin, December 26, 1878. Mr. F. owns two hundred and forty acres of land, valued at $50 an acre. He has had excellent educational advantages, having graduated at the Wesleyan University, at Bloomington, in 1871. Mrs. F. attended the Female Wesleyan College, at cincinnati, two years, and afterward attended the Bettie Stuart, of Springfield.