BIO:  Jacob Saylor, 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, Hopewell Township, Pg 115

JACOB SAYLOR, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Ramsay) Saylor, was born in Manchester 
Township, York Co., Penn., December 25, 1837, and is the fifth of a family of 
nine children.  His father and mother were born in Manchester Township – the 
latter died in 1858.  Jacob Saylor, our subject, at the age of twenty-one years, 
began farming, which he followed two years.  He then learned blacksmithing, and 
worked in the car shops at York for two years.  In 1863 he went to Illinois, and 
worked at farming for two years, and then returned to York, Penn.; was again 
employed in the car shops until 1867, when he began selling machinery as 
traveling salesman.  In 1870 he rented the hotel property near Stewartstown, 
known at Patterson’s Hotel, where he remained three years, and gained an enviable 
reputation as a first class hotel keeper.  In 1875 he rented the Douglass hotel, 
near Winterstown; remained there only one year, when he removed to the Plank 
Road, and engaged in smithing for one year.  In 1877 he rented a hotel at 
Winterstown one year, and then rented Snyder’s hotel, where he also remained one 
year, after which he removed to the present hotel property at Cross Roads where 
he has since been located, and is enjoying an extensive trade.  In connection 
with keeping hotel he is also dealing in agricultural implements and horses.  He 
was married, in 1859, to Henrietta Albright, daughter of John Albright, of York, 
and has four children:  William E., George B., Emma K. and Clara E.  His wife 
died August 4, 1868.  His second marriage was in 1869 to Mary Jane Portner, 
daughter of Mrs. Mary Portner, of Cross Roads, and they have one child – Henry 
Irving.  In 1880 Mr. Saylor was elected constable of his township, and held that 
office four years.  He and wife are members of the Lutheran Church, of Mount 
Pleasant.  He is now building a hotel on property which he owns at Felton 
Station, on the York & Peach Bottom Railroad, where he intends locating.