BIO:  John Jay Lane, 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, Lower Chanceford Township, Pg 124

REV. JOHN JAY LANE, son of John and Sarah (Wilson) Lane, was born March 21, 1818.  
His father was a native of Virginia and his mother of Chester County, Penn.  His 
father came to Lower Chanceford Township in 1812; prior to this he was engaged in 
tanning in Harford County, Md.; he purchased 190 acres of land in Lower 
Chanceford Township, and commenced farming.  John Jay remained on the farm until 
1831.  He entered Jefferson College, at Cannonsburg, Washington Co., Penn.; then 
studied theology at the Western Theological Seminary, at Allegheny, Penn., and 
finished his studies in 1849.  After teaching school for two years, he became 
professor of Latin in Franklin College, at New Athens, Ohio, for two years.  His 
first charge was at Fairview, Ohio, then Wrightsville, Penn., where he was pastor 
of the Presbyterian Church for fifteen years; then he returned to Rockhill, Ohio, 
and was in charge of the Presbyterian Church for ten years, after which he 
returned to the homestead, which he bought from his brother and sister, 
containing 182 acres.  He was married, in 1847, to Lucy Grimes, of New Athens, a 
graduate of the Female Seminary of Pittsburgh, Penn., who died in 1866, leaving 
the following children:  Sarah B., Ashed G., Flora, Bertha V. and Latimore N. 
(deceased).  The elder son, Ashed, is now pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 
Crestline, Ohio, and married Miss Maggie Nelson, on October 14, 1882; he has one 
son named Latimore C. Lane.  John Wilson, the grandfather of J. Jay Lane, on the 
maternal side, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, during most of the 
campaign; was in several battles, one of them the battle of Brandywine.  A 
brother of his was taken prisoner by the British, and held at Philadelphia until 
he, with two others, broke prison and returned to the American army after 
knocking down the guard.  Also his paternal grandfather, Joseph Lane, was in the 
army of the Revolutionary war and died in the hospital caused from fever caught 
in the service of his country, his own father being quite a small lad at that 
time was nearing losing his life by the Hessians who came over to this country to 
fight for England, some of the descendents of whom still live in a portion of 
this county.