FREDERICK JACOB
Born in 1824 - Died in
1910
Frederick Jacob, Edgar Jacob,
Ernest Jacob and Frederick's wife.
He was
a son of Thomas Jacob of Shepperdswell,
born in 1826, and died at Iowa in 1910. On 7th November 1851 he married Mary
Ann Swift at Stowting, in Kent. In the spring of 1852 they emigrated to America
and lived at Buffalo, New York. In 1859 he went to Black Hawk County, Iowa,
and settled in Mount Vernon, where he went into farming. They lived on Home
Farm and were among the most prominent and energetic residents of their township.
He fought
in the Civil War, was wounded at Dallas in 1864, and discharged in 1865. He
had five children:
1 Thomas, who went on
to farm fruit in Tulare County, California, and died in 1930.
2 Frederick W.
3 John F, who farmed the Jacob family's Home Farm in Mount Vernon, and died
in 1936.
4 Susanna, who died in December 1895.
5 Morphew, who farmed with his brother at Tulare, and died in 1925.
Frederick's homestead in Iowa. With him are his family.
Frederick
W attended schools of Black Hawk County and remained with his parents till
the age of 26. He bought his farm of 80 acres in 1880. His wife Delia was
of Bremer County, Iowa, the daughter of Mathew Farrington and Ann L Willis,
the former of Duchess County, New York, and the latter of Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Mathew Farrington was a school teacher for some 50 years. In 1852 he moved
to Bremer County, and settled in what was then Jeferson, but was renamed Denver,
Iowa.
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