Biographical Sketch of Samuel JACOBS (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania, comprising a historical sketch of the county", by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1893, pp. 479-480. "SAMUEL JACOBS, a well respected citizen and prosperous and successful merchant of Devault, is the eldest son of George and Mary (McCool) Jacobs, and was born in White Marsh township, Montgomery, county, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1834. He received his education in the common schools, and was engaged in farming for several years in different townships in the northern part of Chester county. In 1888 he came to Devault, once known as Ayers' Corner, where he established his present general mercantile store. He carries a full and well assorted stock of dry goods, staple and fancy groceries, notions, boots and shoes, and everything in the mercantile line needed to supply the large trade which he has built up. "On February 16, 1870, Mr. Jacobs married Phoebe Baker, daughter of David Baker, of Willistown township, this county. "In politics Samuel Jacobs is a democrat. He is a member of Willistown Baptist church; and Academy Lodge, No. 502, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Throughout life he has been careful, honest and economical, and has slowly but surely carried forward every agricultural or business enterprise in which he has ever been engaged. "The Jacobs family has been resident of Montgomery county for several generations; the paternal grandfather of Samuel Jacobs was reared and died there. His son, George Jacobs (father), was born and reared in Montgomery county, and in 1839 came to White Horse, in East Whiteland township, where he resided until 1851, when he removed to a farm near Valley Store, that township, on which he resided until his death, which occurred April 11, 1889. He followed lime burning as an occupation, was a democrat in politics, and married Mary McCool, of White Marsh, Montgomery county. They were the parents of nine children, all sons: Samuel; Robert, who died at two years of age; Charles, who went west in 1879 and of whom nothing has been heard since; Joseph, a merchant of Charlestown township, who served in an emergency regiment when Lee invaded Pennsylvania in 1863; George of Willistown township, who also served in an emergency regiment; William, a blacksmith, and resident of Charlestown township; John, of Titusville, this State, who served nine months in a Union regiment during the late civil war, and is now engaged as an oil well driller; Evan; and Morgan, who died February 23, 1883."