BIO: Jacob W. CORP, Clearfield County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/ NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm _____________________________________________________________ From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr., Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 577 & 578. _____________________________________________________________ JACOB W. CORP, who is engaged in the butchering business and also owns eighty acres of farm land situated one mile east of Luthersburg, in Brady township, Clearfield county, Pa., is one of the representative citizens of this township, of which he has been clerk for the past thirty years. He was born in Brady township, in 1839, and is a son of Henry and Mary Corp, natives of Germany. In 1837 the parents of Mr. Corp came to America and located near Luthersburg, on what is now the Knarr stock farm, having five children at that time, three more being subsequently born to them. The family record is as follows: Henry W. and Frederick, both of whom are deceased; Elizabeth, deceased, who was the wife of Henry L. Weaver, also deceased; Adam and Lavina, both of whom are deceased, the latter having been the wife of John W. Owens, also deceased; Eliza Ann, deceased, who was the wife of William Wilson, also deceased; Jacob Walter; and George, who was born in 1841 and now lives in Missouri. The mother of Jacob W. Corp died when he was three years old and his father was accidentally killed by a horse, in 1857. From 1842 until 1855 he grew up in the family of Peter Arnold and learned practical farming and also was given school opportunities. In 1859 he attended the Clearfield Academy and afterward taught school in Brady and Union townships for some four years, through the winter seasons. In 1870 he started in the butchering business on his farm at Coal Hill, and for twenty years supplied meat to the lumbermen on Anderson Creek, driving his own wagon and frequently covering thirty miles a day. He still operates his wagon and deals quite extensively in livestock. This farm was a wilderness when he bought it from J. M. Armagost but Mr. Corp has cleared it all with the exception of four acres and has put up all the substantial buildings. He is a tireless worker and through his good management and business foresight, has a great deal to show for his industry. On October 3, 1861, Mr. Corp was married to Miss Mary Welty, a daughter of David Welty, of Union township, and they have had these children: Hannah, who is the wife of Oscar Seyler and they have two children - Felicia and Eugene; David, who died young; Ira M., who died at the age of eighteen years; Nettie, who married David Bonsol, and they have four children - Ivan, Oleeta, Oscar and Walter; Eva, who lives at Grampian; Willis, who died at the age of fourteen years; Mary, who married who married Edward H. Harmon (they have six children - Florence, Raymond, Ralph, Bessie, George and Grace, and live at Helvetia); James N., who married Pearl Neff (they have three children - Walter, Melvin and William, and live at Luthersburg). Mr. Corp and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he has been superintendent of the Sunday school for thirty years. Formerly he was an active member of the order of American Mechanics and served three years in the office of deputy state councilor. He votes as his judgment approves, in local matters and in National affairs gives support to the Prohibition party. Mr. Corp is also a member of Pomona Grange.