Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Smaltz, Jacob 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Jacob Smaltz is a farmer on section 23, Ustick Township. He was born in 
Germany Nov. 9, 1814, and is the son of George and Kathrina Smaltz, who were 
also natives of Germany. He was married in his native land, Sept. 25, 1846, to 
Anna Fichter, and they are now the parents of ten children—Jacob, Mathias, 
Anna, Christiana, Dora, George, Mary, John, Eliza and William. Mr. Smaltz 
emigrated with his wife and children to the United States in 1852. He went 
first to Ohio, where he lived 10 years, coming, in 1862, to Whiteside County. 
Soon after his arrival in Illinois he bought 80 acres of land in Ustick 
Township, on which he has since lived. He has exerted the thrift and energy 
which make continued existence possible in his own country, on the acres which 
he owns in Illinois, and has shown the worth of one man in the field of well 
directed effort. The habits he formed from necessity in early life have proved 
resources of profit to him under the privileges of a republic. He is now the 
owner of 203 acres in Whiteside County and 160 acres in Iowa. The home farm 
displays buildings of an excellent and valuable type. Politically Mr. Smaltz 
is a Democrat. He and his wife are members of the German Lutheran Church.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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