News: Jacobs Reunion, 1914, East Berlin, Adams County, PA

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The Jacobs family held a reunion at Lafayette Park on last Saturday and it 
proved a great success.  Over 600 people were at the park.  Members of the 
Jacobs family in and around East Berlin went to a good deal of trouble to 
prepare dinner for all who came and over 500 people enjoyed the good dinner 
consisting of fried chicken and beef, red beets and pickles, three kinds of cake 
and ice cream.  Seventy-four persons went to East Berlin by train to attend the 
reunion, they were from Waynesboro, Altoona, Maryland, Franklin, York, Juniata 
and Adams counties.  Most of those attending by train belonged to different 
branches of the Jacobs family.  Rev. W. H. Miller of East Berlin made the 
address of welcome.

Among the guests were four ministers, Rev. Miller and Rev. Sternat of 
Abbottstown, Rev. Jacobs of York county, and Elder M. A. Jacobs of Waynesboro.  
There was some good singing, quartet and solos.

In the afternoon Berdes Jacobs of East Berlin read a history of the Jacobs 
family.  Isaiah Jacobs, one of the first settlers of Yale, Mass., came to this 
country in 1626.  He died in 1692 aged about 85 years.  M. A. Jacobs of 
Waynesboro had the records as to Samuel Jacobs, born 1756 and owning a large 
farm near East Berlin.  He was the ancestor of many of the family in and around 
East Berlin of Samuel Jacobs of near Mummasburg.  John R. Kuhn exhibited a copy 
of an old deed from William Penn to Henry Jacobs for over 350 acres from Beaver 
Creek to a point near the Mummert Meeting House.

A historical committee was appointed composed of Mrs. Daniel Oller, Waynesboro, 
Isaac Hoechst, East Berlin, and Mrs. Lewis Grass, York.

The old officers were re-elected as follows:

President, D. W. Jacobs, Weynesboro; Vice President, Daniel Jacobs, East Berlin; 
Secretary, H. J. Bare, Waynesboro; Treasurer, Isaac Jacobs, Waynesboro; 
Historian, M. A. Jacobs, Waynesboro.

Every one attending the reunion was so greatly pleased that it was voted to hold 
the next annual reunion at Waynesboro, Aug. 21, 1915.  Many of the visitors left 
town in the evening train.

Gettysburg Compiler – Saturday, August 22, 1914