BIO:  Jacob H. Lamotte, 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, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 178

JACOB H. LAMOTTE, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hershey) Lamotte, of Maryland and 
Pennsylvania, and of French and German descent, was born in Baltimore County, Md., 
May 8, 1819, and was the eldest of seven children.  He was brought up on the farm 
and educated in the common schools in Maryland.  He was married in Carroll County, 
Md., to Elizabeth Zimmerman, of German descent, and had seven children:  Joanna 
(deceased), Eli (deceased), Jeremiah (deceased), Joshua (deceased), Calvin, 
Cornelius and Ella.  He brought his family to York County, in 1840, and settled in 
Manheim Township, where he lived until 1884, when he rented his farm and removed to 
New Freedom.  He was one of the organizers, and is a director of Codorus & Manheim 
Insurance Company.  He had held various township offices, and in 1879 he was elected 
county commissioner for three years.  The family are members of the German Reformed 
Church.  His parents died in 1865 and in 1847, respectively, aged seventy-six and 
fifty-four years.  The farm which he owns in Manheim Township contains 170 acres of 
finely cultivated land.