General Notes

Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College : with annals of the college history
New York: H. Holt and Co., 1885-1912, 4752 pgs.

Biographical Sketches, 1808                         229

JOB STAPLES, the eighth child and fifth son of the Rev. John Staples (Princeton 1765) and of Susannah (Perkins) Staples, of Westminster Parish, in Canterbury, Connecticut, was born on August 23, 1786. Two brothers were graduated here in 1797 and 1809 respectively. His father died some months before he entered College.
He taught school for a short time in Chester, Orange County, New York.
In 1816 he settled in Cranberry, a township in the southwestern corner of Butler County, Pennsylvania, about fifteen miles northwest of Pittsburgh, where the rest of his life was spent on a farm.
He died in Cranberry, in September or October, 1861, in his 76th year.
By his wife, Susan, a native of the vicinity, he had five sons and eight daughters.
AUTHORITIES. Perkins Family, pt. 3, 38.