Adams County IN Archives History - Books .....Chapter XII Jacob King 1896
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Book Title: Reminiscences Of Adams, Jay And Randolph Counties

CHAPTER XII.
JACOB KING.

    Jacob King was born on November 29th, 1810, at Little York, Pa., and died at
Decatur, Ind., on the 19th day of May, 1894, aged 83 years 5 months and 20 days.
   At the age of 5 years he removed with his parents from Little York, Pa., to
New Philadelphia, Ohio, where he learned and engaged in the blacksmith trade,
and was one of the best blacksmiths of his time. 

    In 1840, at the age of 30 years, he removed to Adams County, Ind., which was
then an almost uninhabited wilderness; only five houses, and they in the woods
and swamps, composed the present city of Decatur. Cheerfully and hopefully did
they address themselves to the difficult task of clearing away the timber,
ditching the swamps and laying the foundation on which we have builded. They
labored for us more than for themselves, land we owe these old pioneers a
lasting debt of gratitude impossible to repay. Surely "one soweth and another
reapeth." They labored and sacrificed and suffered to lay the foundations of our
boasted civilization, and of that peace and of those instutions which we by
inheirtance to-day enjoy. Mr. King was twice married. In 1832 he was married to
Catherine Goff, to whom were born eight children. In 1853 he was married to
Maria Lincoln, to whom were given four children.

   Fond of home, to him there was no place so dear as the old fireside, and he
was never so happy as when surrounded there by his children and grandchildren.
He was a Jacksonian Democrat all his life, and his party honored him by
entrusting to his hands several offices in his county. He was constable for
seventeen years, marshal for four years and sheriff four years. He was a good
and efficient officer. Faithfully and well did he do his duty in this capacity
as in every other. He was raised in the Lutheran church, his father and mother
being ardent and strict members of that denomination, but a short time before
his death he united with the Presbyterian church of this city.

Not now, but in the coming years,
  It may be in the better land, 
We'll read the meaning of our tears,
  And there, sometimes, we'll understand.

We'll catch the broken threads again.
  And finish what we here began; 
Heav'n will the mysteries explain,
  And then, ah then, we'll understand.

God knows the way, He holds the key.
  He guides us with unerring hands; 
Sometimes with tearless eyes we'll see, 
Yes, there, up there, we'll understand.


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Reminiscences of Adams, Jay and Randolph Counties

Compiled by Martha C. M. Lynch

Ft. Wayne, IN: Lipes, Nelson & Singmaster

Circa 1896

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