BIO: John 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 LVI.

                        SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP.

540  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  JOHN JACOBS, farmer, P. O. New Kingstown.  Among the prominent 
families of Cumberland County is that of Jacobs, of Scotch-Irish 
descent.  The grandfather of our subject, who settled in York County, 
Penn., came from Ireland and was a blacksmith by 

541  SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP.

trade.  He was the father of four children:  David, Elizabeth, Joseph, 
and one son who died young.  Joseph Jacobs, his son, was born in York 
County, Penn., in 1798, and came to Cumberland County when a lad of 
about twelve years.  He was a carpenter by trade.  He married Miss 
Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Duey, of Cumberland County, Penn., and to 
them were born three sons:  David, Ephraim and John.  Joseph Jacobs was 
a Democrat in political opinions, was a member of the Lutheran Church, 
and died at the early age of thirty-seven.  John, his son, was born in 
this township in 1830, and was but four years of age when his father 
died.  By good management his mother secured a home, and gave her son 
all the advantages in her power.  In 1864 our subject was elected 
sheriff of Cumberland County.  In 1865 he married Miss Mary, daughter 
of Michael and Salome (Senseman) Kost, of this county.  This union has 
been blessed with two children:  Salome E. and Thomas Ralph.  In 1866 
Mr. Jacobs entered into partnership with Moses Bricker in the Letort 
Forge, in which he was engaged ten years.  He then moved to his present 
farm and homestead.  Mr. Jacobs is a stanch Democrat and has held 
several township offices.  He is a stalwart man of fifty-six years and 
of easy and dignified manners.  He takes life philosophically, and is 
one of the farmers who spend their evenings with the newspapers.  He is 
well known throughout the county as a man of character and ability.