Thomas Paul, Amanda Becker
and Their Ancestors

"Thomas William Paul was born September 7, 1872 in east Brunswick Township, where he received most of his education in the public schools, later attending the high school at Palo Alto one term.. He taught school for one term in West Brunswick township.. He grew up on the home farm, and continued to assist his father in its operation until twenty-two years of age. Then he married and entered the employ of Jonas Kunkel, as a farm laborer, remaining with him one year, after which he returned to the home farm, later buying the place from his father. The tract contains about one hundred acres, seventy-five acres of which are under cultivation, devoted to general farming. Mr. Paul attends market at Port Carbon and St. Clair, and being ambitious and diligent has taken his place among the most progressive agriculturists of the neighborhood. His neighbors have given practical evidence of the high opinion they have formed of his trustworthiness by electing him to the township school board, in which body he served for a period of sixteen years, until the new code went into effect. He supports the Republican party, and like a number of the family holds membership in the Church of God at Steigerwalt, of which he is elder at present. For sometime he was superintendent of the Sunday School."