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he commenced contracting, and followed it until 1880, and then removed to his present home at Walnut Grove, where he built and still operates a large saw mill, besides doing some building on his own account. He also superintends Maple Grove park, so popular for pleasant pastimes and sports and Sunday school picnics. In this grove is located his modern steam merry-go-round and panorama, one of the finest of its kind in the State. In 1859 Mr. Jacoby wedded Julia Horner, a daughter of Eli B. Horner, then a well-known resident of Cambria county. Of the eight children born to their union, two daughters are dead, and those living are: John, Margaret (now Mrs. George A. Markley), William, Henry, Jacob, Jr., and Edward. In politics Mr. Jacoby supports the Republican party. He is a member of Conemaugh Lodge, No. 17, I.0.0.F., and the English Evangelical Lutheran church of Johnstown, on whose present building committee he is serving. Inheriting rare mechanical skill, and perfecting himself in all the modern improvements in his line of building, he ranks as a skilled builder. To mechanical skill, Mr. Jacoby adds energy, and to energy that masterful quality, decision, and that rare endowment, good common sense. Thus intellectually equipped he could not fail to win the success that he has achieved, and to write his name, where it now stands, on the roll of the self-made men of Cambria county.
JOHN OWENS, a merchant of Ebensburg, this county, is a son of Edward Owens, whose sketch appears elsewhere. He was born July 15, 1849, on the high seas, his parents being on their voyage from Wales to the United States. |
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He received the advantages of a common school education in the schools of Cambria township. After leaving school and when he commenced the battle of life on his own account, he took up lumbering, and pursued it until 1879, when, in February of that year, he embarked in mercantile pursuits in Ebensburg, and has pursued that line of business to the present time. In political matters Mr. Owens is a republican, and has served in local offices. Fraternally he is a member of Highland Lodge, No. 428, I.0.0.F.; and of Summit Lodge, No. 312, F. and A. M. November 8, 1878, Mr. Owens and Mary Gettings, daughter of Richard Gettings, of Ebensburg, were married, and to this union have been born the following children: Annie E., Richard, Mildred, Gussie, William, Louie, and Eddie, who died young.
DR. BENJAMIN F. TOMB, a successful practitioner of Morrellville, the most important suburb of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a native of Indiana county, Pennsylvania. The Tomb family, of which he is a member, is one of the oldest and most numerous in Indiana county. Their ancestors came from County Armagh, Ireland, and at the beginning of the present century, with other emigrants from the same neighborhood, settled in Indiana county, in and around the village of Armagh. |
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