BIO:  Jacob S. BENTZ, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Carroll Township, Pg 85

JACOB S. BENTZ, son of Jacob L. and Elizabeth Bentz, of Warrington Township, was 
born April 28, 1836, and is of German descent.  He attended school and assisted 
on the home farm until 1854, and then served an apprenticeship of two years at 
carpentering with his uncle, Andrew Bentz; he next worked a year with Henry 
Arnold, and then started business for himself, employing five or six hands, for 
about four years.  For some time thereafter he farmed on the old homestead; in 
1869 he bought a farm of 107 acres near Dillsburg, of Henry Arnold, on which he 
built a large barn and other out-buildings, and removed and enlarged the 
dwelling.  Mr. Bentz has had born to him four children, of whom two sons, one a 
farmer, the other a merchant, are still living.  With his wife he is a member of 
the Lutheran Church at the Barrens.  He has served as supervisor, school director 
and auditor, and three years ago was elected county commissioner.