BIO: Jacob H. BLACK, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 84.
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  JACOB H. BLACK, Huntingdon, Pa., was born in Huntingdon, December 7, 1848, 
son of William H. and Susan (Hoffman) Black.  From his ancestors, both 
paternal and maternal, Mr. Black inherits the German blood which has 
imparted to the Pennsylvania community some of its best and most enduring 
qualities.  The Schwartz (Black) and Hoffman families both came at an early 
date to this country.  George Schwartz, grandfather of J. H. Black, came to 
Huntingdon from Lancaster county in 1796, a little more than a century ago.  
He was a cooper, and was already able, at the time of his marriage to 
Catherine Zimmerman, in 1804, to purchase the home in which the young couple 
kept house, and in which he lived until the time of his death, when he was 
eighty-three years old.  He was a faithful and influential member of the 
Methodist church.  His children were eight in number, all sons.  The seventh 
son, William H., married Susan, daughter of Dr. Jacob and Anna (Frank) 
Hoffman.  Their children are:  William A., of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Laura G. 
(Mrs. T. T. Morgan), of Kansas City, Mo.; and Jacob H.  William H. Black was 
a carpenter; he spent his whole life in Huntingdon, and died at the age of 
twenty-nine.
  Like his father, Jacob H. Black has dwelt all his life, excepting only a 
few years, in the same borough.  After his education, begun in the 
Huntingdon common schools, had been completed at Millersville State Normal 
School and he had graduated there with the class of '69, he taught school in 
Huntingdon, and was for two terms principal of the borough high school.  In 
1876-77, he was superintendent of the public schools of Sunbury and 
Northumberland, Pa.  During the time intervening between his teaching 
engagements, Mr. Black studied the drug business in Lock Haven and Sunbury, 
Pa.  In 1887 he engaged in that business on his own account in Huntingdon, 
and has continued in the same ever since.  His political views are liberal.
  Jacob H. Black was married in Sunbury, December 20, 1875, to Emma C., 
daughter of John W. and Margaret Fryling, of that town.  Mr. Fryling is 
deceased, but his wife survives him.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. Black 
are:  John T., Elsie D.; Ross E.; Edward F.; Rachel; Joel H.; and Laura.  
Mr. and Mrs. Black are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.