BIO:  Jacob Doll, 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, Manchester Township, Pg 132

JACOB DOLL, born in Spring Garden Township, May 24, 1851, is the eldest of three 
children of Henry and Susanna (Dissenberger) Doll, natives of York County, and an 
old Pennsylvania family.  He spent the first twenty-six years of his life on the 
farm, and received a good education.  He was married at York, Penn., May 11, 
1875, to Anna C. Coleman, a native of New Holland, Penn., and a daughter of 
Matthias Coleman (deceased lumber dealer), and has had four children, of which 
number two are dead:  John Albert, died at the age of three months, and George 
Henry, died at the age of ten months.  The living are Lillie Mary and Susie.  
From 1877 to 1879, our subject was an invalid.  In 1879 he began the manufacture 
of cigars at his father’s house, near Starview, from which he removed in the 
spring of 1880, to New Holland, where he has since carried on the same business, 
employing eight hands, and has also a factory at Starview, employing four hands.  
He makes about 700,000 cigars per years.  He is something of a German scholar, 
but devotes his whole time to the manufacture of cigars.