BIO:  JACOB R. ELM, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 549-550
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    JACOB R. ELM, whose death occurred Aug. 25, 1893, was long a well known and
  highly respected citizen of Shippensburg, and was one of the survivors of the
  great Civil war, in which he was wounded while serving in the defense of his
  country.

    550  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

    Mr. Elm was born in 1841, at Pleasant Hall, Franklin Co., Pa., a son of
  John and Elizabeth (Myers) Elm, natives of Germany and residents of a farm
  near Orrstown, Franklin county, where they died. Jacob R. Elm was educated in
  the local schools and was fourteen years old when he was apprenticed to the
  cabinet-making trade at Shippensburg, with David Frantz. Here he served out
  his apprenticeship and became a skilled workman. He worked as a journeyman
  until 1862, when he enlisted in the Union army and participated in the battle
  of Antietam. Here he was wounded in the hand, and this calamity was followed
  by an attack of typhoid fever, which occasioned his discharge after nine
  months of service. As soon as he regained his health he resumed work, and in
  1872 formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, John E. Boher, in the
  manufacture of furniture and the conducting of an undertaking business. This
  grew into a large enterprise, but failing health made it necessary for him to
  limit his activities, and in 1882 he sold his furniture interests to Mr.
  Boher. He was a man of genial manner and possessed many warm personal friends.

    In October, 1866, Mr. Elm was united in marriage with Miss Lottie Boher,
  daughter of the late Samuel and Mary M. (Pague) Boher. Mr. Boher died in
  1893, his widow surviving until Dec. 3, 1903. Mrs. Boher was a woman well
  known and much beloved in Shippensburg. She was born June 12, 1814, in
  Shippensburg, a daughter of Peter and Katherine (Weber) Pague, and a
  granddaughter of Capt. Ludwig Weber, who came from Holland early in the
  settlement of the Cumberland Valley. She was the mother of thirteen children
  and is survived by the following: Samuel C. and David Wilson, of
  Shippensburg; Mrs. Josephine Deitrich, of Galion, Ohio; Mrs. Charlotte Elm,
  of Shippensburg; J. Heck, of Harrisburg; John E., and Bella M.   Although in
  her ninetieth year at the time of her death she was in the full possession of
  her faculties excepting that of sight. She was of so kind and loving a nature
  that she was beloved by a large circle. 
  
    Mrs. Elm was educated in the schools of Shippensburg, which city has been 
  her home all her life. She has two children: Paris Foster, a pharmacist in 
  Philadelphia, and Margaret, wife of Ira Bryner, in the oil business at 
  Coalinga, California.

    Mr. Elm was a valued member of the Memorial Lutheran Church. His fraternal
  connections were with Cumberland Valley Lodge and Valley Encampment, I. O. O.
  F.; McLean Post, G. A. R., and Shippensburg Council, Royal Arcanum. He was a
  man of the highest integrity, one who left behind an honorable name and a
  memory which will long remain green.