FREDERICK JACOB

Born 8th December 1826 - Died 25th November 1910

 


Frederick Jacob, Edgar Jacob, Ernest Jacob and Frederick's wife.

 

He was a son of Thomas Jacob of Shepperdswell, born on 8th December 1826 in Lyminge parish, Kent, and died in Old Homestead, Iowa on 25th November 1910. He was buried on 27th November at Janesville. On 7th November 1851 he married Mary Ann Swift at Stowting, in Kent. She was the daughter of Thomas Crayden Swift and Susanna Foord, and was born in England on 25th October 1822. She died on 26th March 1911 in the Old Homestead, the burial taking place in Janesville, Iowa cemetery.

In the spring of 1852 they sailed for America. After a perilous journey of 51 days they landed in New York and made Buffalo their home for three years. In 1855 they moved to Rockford, Illinois, before moving to Buchanan County, Iowa in 1858. Finally they settled at their farm in Mt Vernon, Black Hawk County, outside of Waterloo, Iowa. They lived on Home Farm, which he bought in 1866, and which to later generations became known as McElroy Farm. They were among the most prominent and energetic residents of their township. Frederick became a U S citizen on 16th Octover 1860.

On 14th August 1862 he enlisted in the Union Army to fight in the Civil War and was wounded at Dallas in 1864, and discharged in 1865. He had five children:

1 Thomas, born 2nd September 1852, and died 9th February 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.

 

Source:

Information supplied by Brenda Nicholson
Information supplied by Pat O'Connor.

 

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