Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Jacob STARK, farmer; P. O. Naperville; the subject of this sketch was born in Lancaster Co., 
Penn., and is the son of William and Elizabeth (COLLER) STARK, of Pennsylvania, who emigrated 
West in 1844, with nine children, and settled on the present farm that Mr. STARK now owns; 
here they set out in farming and made all the improvements on the farm, as the country was 
comparatively new; Mr. William STARK has retired from farming, being in his 78th year; now 
living in Du Page County; Jacob STARK married Miss Mary HARTMAN, daughter of Adam and Susan 
(BUGET) HARTMAN, of Lancaster Co., Penn., who emigrated West to Illinois, in 1842; have ten 
children. Is a member of the Evangelical Church. Owns 220 acres of fine, improved land.