Bio of French, Jacob M. (b.1826) Wabasha Co., MN
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French, Jacob M., farmer, and prominent citizen of Wabasha county, came to
Highland township from Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1871, soon after
purchasing the farm on sections 20 and 21 on which he has since resided.
He was born July 8, 1826, at Mount Holly, Rutland county, Vermont. His
parents, David and Susa (Marsh) French, were natives of the same state,
his father being born in Reading, March 15, 1779, and his mother at
Halifax, November 27, 1802. When Jacob was eleven years old, his parents
removed from Vermont to Warren county, Pennsylvania. This removal was the
result of business reverses, Mr. French, senior, being a manufacturer. The
family not having retrieved its fortunes in Pennsylvania, we find the
subject of this sketch in 1852 an inmate of a mining camp at Oroville,
California. Four years later he returned to Pennsylvania, and engaged in
agricultural pursuits there until his removal to Wabasha county. Miss
Eveline G. Cook, a native of Warren county, Pennsylvania, then in her
twentieth year, became his wife. Her parents were Asa Cook, a native of
Massachusetts, and Fannie (Elmer) Cook, a native of Vermont. Mrs. French
received an education at the Fredonia, New York, Academy. Four children
have blessed this union, viz: Fannie G., born in Pennsylvania, August 9,
1859, a graduate of the Minnesota State Normal School at Winona, and first
assistant teacher in the Wabasha graded schools; D'Etta A. (Mrs. C. E.
Robbins, of Fargo, Dakota, born October 18, 1861); Alden M., born July 12,
1867; Ernest A., born March 13, 1878. Mr. French is a republican in
politics; has been township clerk several terms, and county commissioner
for three years. He is also a member of the Plainview Grange.