BIO: George W. Jacobs, 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 L. 

                           MIDDLESEX TOWNSHIP. 

  GEORGE W. JACOBS, farmer, was born on his father's homestead, on the 
northern border of Middlesex Township, October 29, 1832.  Jacob Jacobs, 
the grandfather, came from Germany and settled first in York, then in 
Perry County, Penn.  Henry, his son, 

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and the father of George W., moved into Cumberland County, and was the 
first of the family to settle on the farm in Middlesex.  George W. 
Jacobs married Phoebe Wetzel, of Cumberland County, December 25, 1855, 
by which marriage there were eight children, six of whom are still 
living on the homestead farm.