BIO:  Jacob B. Shank, 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, Spring Garden Township, Pg 193

JACOB B. SHANK, son of John and Mary A. (Buser) Shank, was born in Spring Garden Township, June 
3, 1832.  He learned his trade (miller) at Philip Shaeffer’s, Glen Rock.  He then went to 
Loucks’ in 1856, and has been at this mill ever since, having charge of it for P. A. & S. 
Small.  December 4, 1839, Mr. Shank married Mary A. Landis, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth 
(Klinefelter) Landis.  Two children were born to them:  Agnes A. and Henry J. (deceased).  Our 
subject’s grandfather was George Shank.  His grandmother was Margaret Brown.  Mr. Shank says 
his great-grandmother cooked for the soldiers in the war of the Revolution during their stay in 
York, and that his great-grandfather was a soldier in that war.  Mr. Shank is a member of the 
Moravian Church.