BIO:  Jacob C. SCHRIVER, Straban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 511

JACOB C. SCHRIVER, carpet weaver, P. O. Gettysburg, was born December 7, 1816, a 
son of John and Elizabeth (Chronister) Schriver, natives of Adams County, and of 
German origin.  The ancestors of our subject came from Germany to America about 
1726; one settling in Hampton, Reading Township, one at Annapolis, Md., and 
another at West Philadelphia.  Our subject is a member of the Hampton branch of 
the family.  His father was a weaver by occupation, which he followed until his 
eighty-fourth year, and died in his eighty-eighth year; his wife lived to be 
eighty-four years old.  Jacob C. was educated in the district school and early 
in life learned the weaver’s trade with his father, and has made that his 
principal business in connection with his farm, which consists of eighty-two 
acres of land.  In 1840 he married Elizabeth Reynolds, a daughter of Jonathan 
Reynolds, and of French and German descent.  Her father, who was a farmer, died 
at the age of seventy-seven years.  Mr. and Mrs. Schriver had a family of eight 
children, five of whom are still living:  Anna Maria, wife of John Rummel; Emma 
Amelia, wife of Henry Weigle; Sidney S.; Francis R., a farmer, and Sadie A.  The 
family are members of the Reformed Church, of which Mr. Schriver has been elder 
and deacon.  He has also served as register and recorder of Adams County and 
school director, and served nine years as postmaster at Hampton, from 1851 to 
1860.