BIO:  Jacob SMYSER, York County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis

Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/york/
_______________________________________________ 

History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
_______________________________________________ 

Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 47

JACOB SMYSER, the second son of Mathias, the immigrant, was a prosperous farmer, 
and for some years a justice of the peace.  In 1789 was elected a member of the 
house of representatives of Pennsylvania, and soon after died at the age of 
fifty-one years.  He left seven sons and one daughter, viz.: Henry, Jacob, 
Martin, John, Daniel, Catherine, Peter and Adam.