BIO:  Jacob Weidman, 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 194

JACOB WEIDMAN was born September 2, 1830.  The ancestry of Mr. Weidman can be traced back to 
Martin Weidman, who emigrated from Germany to America in 1733.  He received a patent from 
William Penn for 385 acres of land in Lancaster County, where he was one of the pioneer 
settlers.  He had two sons, Christopher and Jacob, and one daughter.  Jacob was married to 
Barbara Hoover, and bore him ten children:  George, Christopher, Martin, John, Jacob, Samuel, 
Peter, Catherine Sees, Elizabeth Yundt, Susanna Elser, and Barbara Zeigler.  His great-
grandfather, Elias Myers, on mother’s side, came from Lancaster County, Penn., about 1770, and 
purchased 400 acres of land, principally woodland, in what was then Hellam, now Spring Garden 
Township.  Subject’s grandfather, John Weidman, was born and died in Lancaster County, Penn.  
The father, Michael Weidman, was a native of Lancaster County.  He married Miss Rebecca Myers, 
daughter of Jacob Myers, and settled in Spring Garden Township in 1829, upon the same tract of 
land now owned by subject.  Their union was blessed by two children:  Jacob and Mary E., now 
the wife of John F. Hiestand of Spring Garden.  The father died in January, 1880, aged eighty 
years.  The mother died in April, 1878, aged seventy-three years.  Jacob Weidman has always 
resided in Spring Garden Township, following farming.  He has a fine farm of 100 acres about 
three miles east of York, highly improved.  He was married, February 18, 1858, to Miss Margaret 
Heilman, of West Manchester Township.  They have nine children living:  Mahala Gross, Isabella 
Kinard, Eva E., Emma M., Michael, Ida J., George, Harry A. and John J.  The family are members 
of the Lutheran Church.