BIO: Jacob L. Heyd, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER XLV.

        EAST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF CAMP HILL.

  JACOB L. HEYD, farmer, P. O. Camp Hill, was born in 1832 in Upper 
Allen Township, this county, son of George Heyd, who died in 
Mechanicsburg in 1876, aged eighty-two.  His mother was Leah, daughter 
of Jacob Grass, of Adams County, Penn.  His paternal grandfather, 
George Heyd, emigrated from Germany in 1760, settling in Lancaster 
County, afterward moving to York County, Penn., and subsequently to 
Cumberland County, where he died, and is buried not far from where his 
grandson lives.  The father 

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of Jacob L. was born in Lancaster County, and went with his parents to 
York County, staying there six years, when he came to Cumberland 
County, and here lived more than fifty years.  Our subject lived with 
his father until, at the age of twenty-three, he was married to Miss 
Catharine, daughter of Jacob Coover, who lived near Dillsburg, York 
County, Penn.  His father gave up the farm to him, and he cultivated it 
for three years, when he removed to his father-in-law's farm, in York 
County, and there lived three years; then bought a small farm in Upper 
Allen Township, this county, which he owned for fifteen years, selling 
it in 1877 and buying the fine 100-acre farm on which he now lives.  He 
has taken great pains to beautify his place and make it a comfortable 
home, as is evinced by its surroundings, which are greatly superior to 
those usually found on a farm.  He has two sons living:  Clinton G., 
twenty-two years old, book-keeper for a wholesale hardware house in 
Harrisburg, and Coover W. fourteen years of age, attending school.  Mr. 
Heyd has three brothers and three sisters living:  H. G., of 
Philadelphia; George W., belonging to the Baltimore Conference, and E. 
D., who lives in Dakota.  Of his three sisters, Elizabeth is a widow of 
Henry Krell; Rebecca is wife of Michael Myers, of Carlisle, and Mary is 
wife of Jacob Brant, of Upper Allen Township.  Mr. Heyd was justice of 
the peace in Upper Allen Township; he is now school director.  He takes 
a warm interest in educational matters, and was prominent in the 
movement to have Camp Hill made a borough, to give its people increased 
school facilities.  He and his wife are communicants of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church in Mechanicsburg.  In all the relations of life he is 
known as a man of sterling character, whose uprightness and probity are 
well spoken of by every person to whom he is known.