BIO: CHRISTIAN JACOBY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 376
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    CHRISTIAN JACOBY (deceased), who for many years was considered one of the
  enterprising men of his time, was born in Cumberland county March 7, 1838,
  and died at Alterton, Pa., Sept. 10, 1890. His parents were Jacob and Julia
  Jacoby, very worthy people.
    
    In 1850 Christian Jacoby married Wilamina C. Westhafer, who was born in
  Cumberland county, a daughter, of Samuel and Susan (Smith) Westhafer, very
  early settlers of Cumberland county. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby
  settled at Alterton, Cumberland county, where he engaged successfully in the
  grain business, handling all kinds of grain, and erecting a fine elevator at
  that place. Later he added the handling of lumber and coal to his original
  enterprise, and in each department of trade built up an excellent business,
  thoroughly understanding existing conditions and demands. At the time of his
  death he was a man of large means, and left his family comfortably provided
  for. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and one of its most liberal
  contributors. One of his fine farms, a place of 160 acres, was located in
  Adams county, near Mt. Rock, on the Harrisburg & Chambersburg Pike, and he
  also owned considerable other realty. In politics he was a Democrat, and he
  always took an active part in local, county and State politics. He was
  elected assessor of his township, as well as mercantile appraiser. His death
  was deeply mourned, and was felt in social, commercial and financial circles,
  as well as in his immediate home circle.
    
    In 1891 Mrs. Jacoby moved to Newville, where she now resides, purchasing a
  pleasant home formerly owned by C. W. Swigert. Two children were born to
  herself and husband: (1) Mary C. E. was educated at Lebanon Valley College,
  married Walter Hartzell, of Carlisle, a clerk in the Pension Department at
  Washington, D. C., and has had two children, Ethel Jacoby (who died at the
  age of eight and one-half years), and Frank Carlisle. (2) Susie died when
  nineteen years of age.