BIO: Jacob Zug, 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 XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

404  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  JACOB ZUG (deceased) was born near Elizabethtown, Lancaster Co., 
Penn., in 1793, and died March 25, 1877, aged eighty-four years, one 
month and thirteen days.  He was a son of John and Margaret (Mohler) 
Zug, both of Lancaster County, Penn., and was a great-grandson of Ulric 
Zug, who, with his own and other Swiss families, immigrated to 
Pennsylvania from the Palatinate of the Lower Rhine, on the invitation 
of Queen Anne, renewed by George I, and encouraged by William Penn by 
the pledge of freedom of conscience, his ancestors having, at an early 
day, left Switzerland for the Palatinate on account of religious 
persecutions.  He landed at Philadelphia September 27, 1727, and 
immediately settled in the northwest part of Lancaster County, in the 
township of Warwick, now called Penn.  There he located, by warrant 
from the proprietary government, nearly 400 acres of land, where he and 
a number of his descendants lived and died.  On this homestead was 
born, in 1731, John Zug, the fourth child of Ulric and the grandfather 
of Jacob Zug, the subject of this sketch.  This John Zug died in 1821, 
aged ninety years.  He was seventy-two years a member, fifty-two years 
a minister, and forty-one years an elder or bishop in the Church of the 
Brethren, properly styled the German Baptist, and was one of the most 
faithful, devoted and honored ministers, a worthy man, highly esteemed 
by all who knew him.  The father of Jacob Zug was the second son of the 
aforesaid John Zug, and was also called John.  He was born on the same 
old homestead in Lancaster County in 1763, and died one mile east of 
Carlisle in 1824.  In 1806 Jacob Zug came with his father to near what 
is now Mechanicsburg, at which time there were but three houses within 
the village.  In 1814 they sold their farm and removed to the junction 
of Cedar Spring with Yellow Breeches Creek, where his father purchased 
a farm and mill, which property they exchanged for a farm one mile east 
of Carlisle.  Here Jacob Zug started in life for himself, and in 1823 
removed to Carlisle, where he lived until his death.  He took a deep 
interest in politics, but was never from choice a candidate for office.  
In 1835, at the urgent request of some of his friends he was induced to 
accept the nomination for the office of county commissioner, to which 
he was elected at a time when his political associates were in the 
minority.  Subsequently he was called by his fellow-citizens at 
different times to serve them as chief burgess and councilman.  He was 
a man who made many warm friends, and was loved and respected by all 
for his manly qualities.  He married Miss Elizabeth Kimmel, of 
Cumberland County, and to them were born five sons and one daughter, 
who lived to manhood and womanhood:  Samuel, who resides in Detroit, 
Mich.; John, an attorney (deceased); Ephraim (deceased), late a 
merchant of Mechanicsburg; Elizabeth, now living in Carlisle; Augustus 
(deceased), aged twenty-seven years; Jacob T., who was a lieutenant in 
the Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, and lost his right arm in 
the battle of Fredericksburg.  The latter married Miss Annie E. Eberly, 
of Mechanicsburg, and to them the following children were born:  Frank 
D., Augusta and Ray, who reside in Carlisle.