Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies..... July 24, 1828

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JACOB S. LOBINGIER. One of the old, distinguished and prominent families of
Westmoreland county is the widely extended Lobingier family, which has furnished
honorable legislators to give renown to the State and able jurists to reflect
credit on the county. Of the numerous descendants of Christopher Lobingier is
Jacob S. Lobingier of Mt. Pleasant township. He is a son of John and Elizabeth
(Smith) Lobingier and was born in Mt. Pleasant township, Westmoreland county,
Pa., July 24, 1828. The Lobingier family of Pennsylvania was founded by
Christopher Lobingier, Sr., great-great-grandfather, who emigrated with his
brother Jacob from Wittenberg, Germany, prior to 1735 and settled near
Harrisburg, in what was then Lancaster county, Pa. His son, Hon. Christopher
Lobingier, was born in 1740 and in 1766 married Elizabeth Muller, who had come
in 1752 with her father, John Muller, from Switzerland. He came in 1772 to Mt.
Pleasant township where he died July 4, 1798. He was a delegate in 1776 to the
first Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania and a member of the Committee of
Correspondence for this county. He served in the General Assembly of
Pennsylvania from 1791 to 1793. Had nine children of whom Judge John Lobingier
(grandfather), the eldest, was born in Dauphin county, this State, April 5,
1767. He was a prominent political leader and public-spirited citizen and a
leading business man. He served in the Legislature, was associate judge of
Westmoreland county and died at Mt. Pleasant February 26, 1859. He was engaged
in the milling, iron and salt-well business and keeping a hotel. His first wife
was Sophia Moyer and after her death he married Elizabeth Cross. Father
Christopher Lobingier having iron-works in the Ligonier valley under his care,
after exchanging for twelve farms he settled at Laurelville, where his son, John
Lobingier, second (father of Jacob S. Lobingier), was born August 21, 1799. He
followed farming until 1882 when he built a fine residence at Mt. Pleasant where
he died May 16, 1885. He was a presbyterian and married Elizabeth Smith,
daughter of Jacob Smith, who was a son of Philip Smith who came from Germany and
whose wife was Mary Armel, of this county. To John and Elizabeth Lobingier were
born nine children.

   Jacob S. Lobingier received a fair education in select schools and Washington
college, which he attended for one year. He has improved upon the limited
educational privileges of his youth by constant reading and self-study. He has
always followed farming and for a number of years successfully operated a coal
mine. His home farm consists of one hundred and seventy-five acres besides which
he owns one hundred acres of good timber land in another part of the township.
Mr. Lobingier is a republican but has always refused to hold office. He is very
useful in his community and township, where he is frequently called upon to act
as executor, administrator and assignee.

   On Christmas Day, 1860, he married Mary Jane Cochran, who was born November
17, 1837. To their union have been born six sons and two daughters: Edward, born
September 6, 1861, died February 6, 1S65; John B., born August 2, 1863; Alice,
born January 10,1865; Walter B., born June 11, 1869, who will graduate at
Wooster University, Ohio, in the class of 1892; Hettie, born May 1, 1871;
Chauncey, born July 30, 1873, at school; Charles D., born March 16, 1S75; and
Arthur M., born December 14, 1878.

   Jacob S. Lobingier is an elder of the Mt. Pleasant Reunion Presbyterian
church, of which his wife is a member.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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