JACOB VAN AERNAM - Biography

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This biography appears on page 680 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JACOB VAN AERNAM, farmer; P. O. Waterford; born in Huron Co., Ohio, Feb.
20, 1836 son of Nathaniel and Eunice V., who came to Racine Co., and
settled in Waterford, on Sections 7, 8, 17 and 18; had a farm of 400
acres; the mother died Jan. 4, 1869; the father died Jan. 20, 1873; his
sons - Jacob and Alfred B.- succeeded the old gentleman. Jacob has set
off forty acres of the farm to his brother, to add to his farm
adjoining. Jacob raises choice domestic stock, cattle, sheep and hogs,
also, all kinds of grain. He married, Jan. 20, 1863, Miss Mary Fisher,
daughter of Rev. John and Catherine Fisher; they have one child- Amanda,
born Feb. 4, 1868. Family attend Reformed Presbyterian Church. Politics,
Republican.