BIO:  John Jacoby, 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 139

JOHN JACOBY was born October 22, 1819, on the place now owned and occupied by 
him, and where he has spent his life.  His parents were David and Elizabeth 
(Miller) Jacoby, of York County, Penn., who reared three sons and one daughter.  
John was the youngest child and lost his father, when he was only fifteen years 
old.  He grew up on the farm and attended the public schools.  October 15, 1844, 
he was married in Manchester Township to Catharine, daughter of John E. Frantz, 
and has had fifteen children, four of whom have died:  two unnamed infants; 
Catharine, a baby, and John at the age of twenty years.  The living are Lewis, a 
carpenter; Henry, a butcher; Elizabeth; Sarah, married to Daniel Shettle; 
William, a butcher; Adam, a carpenter; Amanda, married to Alfred Shoop; Anna; 
Samuel, a butcher; Augustus, and Alfred, a merchant at York.  Mr. Jacoby and wife 
belong to the Lutheran Church.  For about thirty years he was engaged in 
butchering, but gave it up in 1878.  He owns a fine farm of forty-eight acres, 
where he now lives, and some woodland in Conewago Township.  What he has he has 
earned by the sweat of his brow.