History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, Vol. II, Part 120

Author: Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer, 1878- joint comp; Krick, Thomas H., 1868- joint comp; Dietrich, William Joseph, 1875- joint comp; Lehigh County Historical Society
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 948


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JOSEPH HUTCHINSON.


Joseph Hutchinson, engineer at the Allentown Rolling Mills, was born March 6, 1854, at Allen- town, and attended the public schools, but while still young was put to work in a furnace and he continued in iron works at Allentown and Cat- asauqua for upwards of ten years, excepting time he was in employ of his uncle, Capt. Joseph Machette, operating a stone quarry. He next worked at the Cornwall iron mines for four years running a steam drill; then returned to Allen- town and has since filled the position of engineer at iron works, since 1895 in the machine shop of the Allentown Rolling Mills. He is a charter member of the American Order of Steam Engi- neers, and of Lehigh Lodge, No. 83, of Odd Fellows, and affiliated with the Sons of Veterans, of which he is a past captain. He organized the "Firing Squad" and participated in the first burial of a Son, and also of a veteran of the Spanish- American War. He attended the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in Centre Square, of


Allentown, being one of the squad that fired a volley during the impressive services. In poli- tics he has been an active Republican.


Mr. Hutchinson was married to Maria Louisa Horn, daughter of Tilghman Horn, and they have two children: Annie Carrie, at home with her parents; and Edwin Thomas Horn, formerly of Allentown, now of New York City.


His father was born in Ireland and emigrated in boyhood to America, locating at Catasauqua, where he worked until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted and served until the close of the war.


The father died young and left four children: Joseph ; Richard James; Lizzie, m. Alfred Red- field ; and Annie, residing at Vineland, N. J.


HYDE FAMILY.


The name of Hyde is one which has been fa- mous in the annals of this country and England for many generations. Bearers of this name held many positions of honor under both governments, and they were also well known in professional life. Representatives of the family are now to be found in every state in the Union. Exact con- nection between the various branches cannot al- ways be traced owing to the destruction of early records during the periods of hardship and war- fare which the early colonists were called upon to endure.


Jacob Hyde, a butcher of Philadelphia, was married to Catharine Trout. They were the par- ents of two children : Joseph, and George J.


George J. Hyde was born at Boyertown, Berks county, Pennsylvania, Aug. 15, 1828, and is still actively engaged at his trade of shoemaking at Fullerton, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Kutz, of Freidensburg, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and they have had children : George E., now deceased, who was in business at Catasauqua; Frank L., a tool maker, resides in Fullerton; Adam H., of further mention.


ADAM H., son of George J. and Sarah (Kutz) Hyde, was born at Frackville, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1870. He was educated in the public schools in the vicinity of his home, and also spent two years in the schools of Catasauqua. Upon leaving school he found employment in the hard coal mines at Shenandoah, Schuylkill county, and then became a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was advanced to the position of fireman, then engineer, and finally conductor, hav- ing charge of the old Mine Hall branch of the main line. He next became engineer on the Den- ver & Rio Grande Railroad, running as far west as Salt Lake City, Utah; then held the same posi- tion on the Oregon Short Line Railroad, which


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ran out of Salt Lake City; then engineer on the California or Southern Pacific Railroad, which had its headquarters at Sacramento, California. Returning to Salt Lake City, he was a stationary engineer for some time there, then accepted a po- sition with a tool works at St. Catherine, On- tario, Canada. In 1912 he went to Fullerton, where he became engineer and fireman for the Lehigh Car Wheel and Axle Works, a responsible position which he is filling with ability. Mr. Hyde is a member of the Order of Firemen, and of the K. of F. He is unmarried, and resides with his father.


IOBST FAMILY.


Among the families that became prominent in the settlement of the quaint old Moravian town of "Emaus," were the Iobsts, of which John George Iobst was the pioneer ancestor. He had two sons, Frederick T., and Francis Iobst.


Frederick T. Iobst came to this country with his parents while a young man. He engaged in the general weaving business which he pursued in connection with other avocations for many years. He was a musician of rare ability, a music teacher, leader of orchestras, and instructor of many brass bands. Immediately prior to the Civil War he toured the Southern states at the head of an orchestra. Upon his return to Le- high county he engaged in the mining of iron ore in which business he was engaged for many years. In addition, he built more than two hundred houses at Emaus, and in the First ward, Allen- town.


In 1859, he was elected the first burgess of the borough of Emaus, which office he served up to 1864. He was one of the early Moravians and was deeply interested in the spiritual wel- fare of his town and community in which his reputation and character was without blemish.


Frederick T. Iobst married Hannah Knauss. They had the following children: Henry ; John ; Amelia, the wife of Herman Giering, who lived at Emlenton, Pa .; Edward; Joseph; and Wil- liam.


John Iobst, the second son of Frederick T. and Hannah (Knauss) Iobst, was born in 1838. He was engaged in the coal business at Emaus for forty years. He served during the Civil War, as leader of the 104th Penna. Regimental Band. His death occurred in 1911, at Emaus, where he is buried on the Moravian cemetery.


He married Josephine R. Giering, daughter of John and Catharine (Doll) Giering. They have eight children, as follows: Fred; Amelia, married to William Jarrett; Emma; Nora, mar- ried to John Treichler, of Emaus; Rev. Harry J., married to Miss Florence Sebring, daughter


of Rev. Henry Sebring, a Methodist minister who lived in Berks county ; Robert Iobst married to Cynthia Walter; Richard W., history fol- lows; and Ella L., who is the assistant post- mistress at Emaus.


RICHARD W. IOBST, EsQ., the present post- master at Emaus, is a native of that old Mora- vian community. He was born June 8, 1881, and it was there that he was educated in the public schools and in the Emaus high school. He then entered the Perkiomen Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1904. Afterward he learned the art of telegraphy and was an operator for seven years. He has been active in Democratic politics since he is of age. He was a justice of the peace for six years, and borough treasurer one term. In 1908 he was admitted to the bar of Lehigh county, and since that time he has been an active practitioner of the law. Mr. Iobst has been district chairman of the Democratic party in Lehigh county for three years, and on July 10, 1913, was appointed post- master of Emaus, by President Woodrow Wil- son.


On Oct. 10, 1907, he married Miss Minnie A. Fuhr, daughter of William and Emma ( Her- man) Fuhr. Mr. and Mrs. Iobst have a son, Carl R. F.


Edward Iobst, the third son of Frederick, was born at Emaus, Aug. 8, 1851. He owned several farms, comprising more than 400 acres of fertile land. He and his wife Lucinda, a daughter of Enos and Eliza (Weaver) Heist, were members of the Moravian Church. They had an only child that died in infancy.


STEPHEN S. IOBST, the fourth son of Fred- erick, was born at Emaus in 1855. He was reared to the pursuit of an agriculturiist, but in 1890 he purchased the Emaus coal yards from his brother, and has been engaged extensively in the coal, lumber and cement business up to the present time. He is one of the prosperous business men of that borough; is treasurer of the Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Emaus, is superintendent of the Mountain Water Company; member of the Emaus Board of Trade; was a director of the Lehigh Valley Trust Company for nine years; school director for three years; and served as borough treasurer for one term. He was a trustee of the Moravian Church, and represented the Church in its sev- eral conferences.


He married Elizabeth Wenner, daughter of Jacob and Judith Wenner. They have the fol- lowing children: Catharine, a public school teacher of Emaus; Caroline, married to Percival Stansfield, of West Brownsville, Pa .; Annie, a


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public school teacher; Forrest, married to Irene Miller; Clarence ; Edgar ; Helen; and Elizabeth.


William Iobst, the fifth son of Frederick, was was at Emaus, in 1865, and died there in 1904, being buried in the Moravian cemetery. He married Elizabeth Schumacher, daughter of Simon and Sarah (Desh) Schumacher. Their children are: Charles, Mary, and Howard Iobst.


Charles Iobst, son of William, married Emma Biery, and their children are: Floyd, Walter, William, Lillian, Jennie, and Arthur.


Francis Iobst, the second son of John George, the pioneer, was married and had a son, Theo- dore, who married Alavesta Griesemer, and their children were: Milton, married to Annie Schmoyer; Ellen, married to Frank Horlacher ; George, married to Emma Wagner; Albert, married (first) Eliza Wagner, (second) Ella Hoffman; Emily, married to Tilghman Wieder ; Edwin, married Mamie Blank; Harvey; Wil- son, married to Alice Johenning, of Allentown; and Oliver, married to Florence Ebert, of Allen- town.


HARVEY L. IOBST, the fifth son of Theodore, was born at Emaus, where he attended the public schools. When sixteen years of age he learned the trade of brick-laying, which he followed as a journeyman until 1900. In that year he form- ed a partnership with Oscar Miller, under the firm name of Miller & Iobst, who are now brick- laying contractors and plasterers, who enjoy a large business and employ a number of skilled mechanics.


Mr. Iobst married Emma Miller, a daughter of Aaron and Caroline ( Mohr) Miller. They have the following children: Benjamin, mar- ried to Florence Eisenhart; Paul; Esther; Mar- tin; Mildred; Margaret; and Francis.


A. K. JACKS.


A. K. Jacks, secretary and treasurer of the Allentown Crockery Company, was born at Rutherford, Dauphin county, in 1857, and was a son of Thomas and Antonnetta (DeWitt) Jacks. The Jacks family is of French Huguenot extraction and was corrupted from Jacques. The family was planted on American soil by Lancelot Jacques, in 1740, whose parents fled to England after the Revolution. Lancelot Jacques first came to Annapolis, Md., as agent for a company of planters. In 1765, in company with others, he acquired a tract of 15,900 acres of land near Clear Spring, where they erected the first furnace in Western Maryland. Thomas Jacks is a de- scendant of this pioneer.


Mr. Jacks attended the Indiana State Normal School, and for seven years followed teaching as a


vocation, after which he was engaged in the mill- ing and grain business at Lickdale, Pa., for two years. In 1884, Mr. Jacks located in Allentown, accepting a position as bookkeeper and continued in this position until 1893, when he became one of the organizers of the Allentown Crockery Co., a successful business house of Allentown. He is identified with the Republican party and was a member of select council from the Eleventh ward for four years, and prior to this time was a mem- ber of the board of control of the Fourth ward. He was also secretary of the section board for some years. Mr. Jacks is identified with various bodies of the Masonic fraternity, is secretary of Barger Lodge, No. 333, and is a member of the governing board of the Y. M. C. A., of this city, since 1886. He and his family worship in St. Paul's Lutheran church, of which Mr. Jacks is financial secretary since 1886, and for a quarter of a century he has served as the esteemed teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class connected with this church.


On April 20, 1883, he married Remeta T. Shoemaker, whose family history appears in these volumes. They had three children: Helen, wife of J. Arthur Singmaster, of Palmerton; Charles T., a law student in the University of Pennsyl- vania, and Carolyn, deceased.


JACKSON FAMILY.


Benjamin Jackson, born in Manchester, Eng- land, came to America about 1868, landing in Boston. He went westward in a "Prairie Schooner," and settled near Salt Lake City, Utah, where he followed farming during his lifetime.


John Jackson, son of Benjamin, was born in Manchester, England, and in 1853, at the age of 15 years, ran away from the parental roof, land- ing in Boston two years preceding his father. He went to Weymouth, Mass., remaining there two years; from there he went to Bridgewater, Mass., eventually becoming a stationary engineer of the Bridgewater Iron Co. He also was a blacksmith. He was a charter member of the I. O. O. F. lodge at Bridgewater.


He married Elizabeth Cart, daughter of Ed- ward and Christiana (Waite) Cart, and their children were: William, died in infancy; Martha, married Nelson Gasset, of Jamaica Plains, Mass .; John Benjamin, of whom below ; Fannie E., married C. C. Jasselyn, of Arling- ton, Mass., and Lucy, who married Harry Kirk- man, of Salt Lake City, Utah. He died in July, 1901, and he and his wife were interred in the cemetery at Bridgewater, Mass.


John Benjamin Jackson, son of John and Elizabeth (Cart) Jackson, was born Dec. 9, 1863, at Bridgewater, Mass. He was educated


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in the public and high schools. He then went west, where he remained a year, when he re- turned to Bridgewater, and entered the employ of the Bridgewater Roller Mills; then was with the Eagle Cotton Gin Co., and still later with Henry Perkins, as a machinist, remaining for twelve years. He then became a member of the corporation, the Taunton Wire Nails Co., and at the end of three years, disposed of his interest. In 1897 he removed to Allentown, and became an employ of the Consolidated Steel and Wire Co., now the American Steel and Wire Co., where he now holds the position of foreman of the nail department, and has held this position for nearly seventeen years.


In politics he is a Republican, and is a mem- ber of the Lehigh Lodge, No. 83, I. O. O. F.


He married, June 21, 1888, in Easton, Mass., Miss Kate Melvine Egan, daughter of Michael and Lucy Waite ( Morse) Egan, of West Bridge- water. Their children are: Charles Edwin, born Oct. 23, 1889, married Bessie Ames, daugh- ter of Ellis Ames, of Brockton, and Melvin Morse, born May 23, 1892, at present in the dairy business at Brockton and Taunton, Mass.


JACOBY FAMILY.


Peter Jacobi, an immigrant from the Palatinate, Germany, arrived in America, in the ship "St. Mark." He qualified for citizenship at Phila- delphia, Sept. 26, 1741. He settled in Bucks county, Pa. He married Mary Elizabeth Heuer, who survived her husband for many years. She died at an advanced age, at the home of her son- in-law, Andrew Snyder, in Richland township, Bucks county. Her death occurred previous to Jan. 9, 1790, since letters of administration were granted on her estate, on that date, to Andrew Snyder. Their children named in the distribu- tion account filed were the following: Conrad, the "eldest son," who accordingly received a double portion ; Henry ; George; John; and Mar- garet. Conrad was born June 7, 1730, and Mar- garet, who was probably the youngest, was born Jan. 6, 1749, and died March 22, 1828.


Conrad Jacobi was granted a warrant for land in Bedminster township, Bucks county, from the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania on May 18, 1751. In April, 1768, he bought a tract of land of 2201/2 acres in Springfield township, adjoining the Dur- ham township line. He sold this property in 1779 and settled on a tract of 259 acres in Dur- ham township. In 1787 he returned to Bed- minster township, where he purchased a farm of 152 acres, near the old Tohicken church, and he remained there until his decease, March 26, 1795.


Conrad Jacobi married, Feb. 11, 1755, Han- nah Riegel, born May 27, 1729, and died at the


home of her son, Leonard Jacobi, in Hilltown township, Bucks county, Nov. 27, 1828, at the age of 99 years, 6 months. Their children were: Philip, Peter, John, Benjamin, Margaret, Cath- arine, Henry, died young, Elizabeth, Henry, and Leonard Jacobi.


Peter Jacobi, the second son of Conrad and Hannah (Riegel) Jacoby, was born Jan. 1, 1759. He, like his father, was a blacksmith and farmer. He bought from his father, 70 acres of land in Durham township, in 1792, and subsequently pur- chased several additional smaller tracts. While attending court at Doylestown, the county seat, as a juror, he contracted a fever, from which he died on March 1I, 1815.


Peter Jacoby married Catherine Trauger, born Sept. 29, 1763, and died Sept. 4, 1844, daughter of Christian and Anna Trauger, of Bucks county. Issue: John, Elizabeth, - Mary, Benjamin, Bar- bara, Catherine, Hannah, Sarah, Peter, Samuel, and Susanna Jacoby. Barbara and Sarah died in early youth.


Note: His oldest brother, Philip, always signed his name as Jacobi, while the others changed the final i to y.


Benjamin Jacoby, the fourth son of Conrad and Hannah (Riegel) Jacoby, was born Sept. 9, 1786. In 1810 he bought a small farm in Nockamixon township, where he followed his trade as a mason, in the open season, and taught school during the winter months. In 1816 he bought a farm of 90 acres near Frenchtown, New Jersey, where he remained until. 1826, when he returned to his native township, and bought a farm in Springfield township, adjoining the farm purchased by his grandfather, Conrad, in 1768. This farm still remains in possession of his de- scendants, being now ( 1914) owned by his grand- son, Henry S. Jacoby, a brother of Lewis S. Jacoby. It is on the road between Springtown and Bursonville. In 1839 he rented the farm to his son, Peter, and removed to the village of Springtown. He served for three months in the army during the War of 1812, his company being stationed at Marcus Hook, to guard the approach to Philadelphia, after the burning of Washington D. C., in 1814. He was a member of the Evan- gelical Church. He died at Springtown, Oct. 29, 1850, and was interred in the cemetery connected with that church, where a tombstone marked his grave. Benjamin Jacoby married (first) Mar- garet Landis, (1788-1827), daughter of Samuel and Susanna (Newcomer) Landis. He married (second) in 1829, Margaret Werst, daughter of Peter Werst, born April 1, 1785, and died Sept. 26, 1844. His children were: Samuel; Peter Landis; Catherine, ( 1812-1897) ; Caroline; Su- sanna; Anna; Benjamin ; John ; and Levi Jacoby.


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Benjamin was located in Philadelphia, where he died, and a son, Theodore, now deceased, sur- vived him. John, a farmer and shoemaker, died at South Allentown. He had children: Ella, Annie, Miriam, Wesley, Isburn, Jacob, and Henry Jacoby. Levi Jacoby resided at Syracuse, N. Y., and was an Evangelical preacher. He had a son, William, and one daughter.


Samuel Jacoby, son of Benjamin and Susan (Landis) Jacoby, was born the 19th day of September, 1810, and died Nov. 6, 1894. He resided in Bethlehem since about 1850, where he died and was buried at Nisky Hill. Blacksmith- ing was his early occupation, but later he became a farmer and a teamster. He was an active member of the Evangelical Church, in which he was a class leader and trustee. He married Sarah Mill, a daughter of George and Catherine (Guth) Mill. Mr. Mill was a farmer. They had the following children: William, of whom below; and Enos, who died at the age of three years.


William Jacoby, son of Samuel Jacoby, was born Sept. 17, 1839, in Durham township, in the home of his grandfather, George Mill. He died in Allentown in 1912.


He followed coopering for forty years. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in Company B, 153d Regiment of Pennsylvania Vol. Infantry, and served ten months. He participated in the battle of Chancellorsville, and on the 2d, 3d and 4th of July in the battle of Gettysburg, and on July 3d, while in action, received a flesh wound in his thigh.


At the close of the war he returned to his home in Bethlehem, where he again followed coopering, and in 1871 located in Allentown, where he continued to reside up to the time of his death. Since 1891 the family residence is at 130 North Penn street. Mr. Jacoby followed his trade until January, 1906, when he retired. He and his family were faithful members of the Ebenezer Evangelical church, where he served as class leader and Sunday school teacher for many years.


On March 8, 1860, he was united in marriage to Eliza Ann Frey, daughter of Edwin and Cath- erine Frey, of New Jersey. Mr. Frey, prior to his marriage, was located at Shoenersville, where he was married to Catherine Winters, a daughter of Jacob Winters, whose son, Lewis, was a stage coach driver for many years, running between Allentown and Bernville, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby had four children, viz: Wilson G. E., mentioned later ; Valeria, married to David H. Price, a machinist of Allentown; Emma, who died single, on Feb. 16, 1911 ; and Edwin S., who died in infancy.


WILSON G. E. JACOBY, president of the Peters & Jacoby Company, Inc., a director of the Second National Bank, and a member of the firm of Arbogast & Bastian Company, at Allentown, was born in Bethlehem, Aug. 3, 1861. At the age of fourteen years he became an employee of Horn & Miller, manufacturers of ice cream, bread and cakes, located at No. 627 Hamilton street, Allen- town. He continued as an employee of this firm for a number of years and later worked in Phila- delphia to complete his trade. In 1883, he re- turned to Allentown, and accepted a position as foreman with L. P. Peters, located at No. 122 North Seventh street. He served Mr. Peters for a period of three years, when Mr. Jacoby and Ambrose F. Peters, son of L. P. Peters, purchased the business, which they have been conducting in a very successful and satisfactory manner to the present time.


Mr. Jacoby is a member of the following lodges: Barger Lodge, No. 333, F. & A. M .; Allen Council, No. 23 ; Allen Chapter, No. 203; Allen Commandery, No. 20; Rajah Temple, Reading; Lehigh Lodge, No. 83, I. O. O. F., of Allentown.


Mr. Jacoby is a member of St. John's Lutheran church, which he had served as a deacon and elder. He is a Republican in politics.


In 1890 he was married to Alice M. Schadt, daughter of ex-county treasurer John J. and Anna (Burger) Schadt, of Lehigh county.


Peter Landis Jacoby, the second son of Ben- jamin and Margaret (Landis) Jacoby, was born Feb. 9, 1813. He had the benefit of good English schools in New Jersey, until he was thirteen years of age, and subsequently his elementary educa- tion was supplemented at Arnold's select school, in Durham township, Bucks county, where he received thorough instruction in arithmetic, book- keeping and the writing of ordinary legal docu- ments. He taught school for several seasons, but after his marriage devoted himself exclusively to agricultural pursuits. He resided on his father- in-law's farm, in Milford township, from 1837 until the spring of 1839, when he took charge of his father's farm in Springfield township. After his father's decease in 1850, he purchased the homestead and later bought additional adjoining lands. On this homestead he resided until his decease, July 3, 1876. He was a prosperous farmer and was actively interested in the public affairs of his neighborhood and especially in the work of the church and Sunday school. While he occupied various official positions in the church for over thirty years, he never held any political office.


Peter L. Jacoby married Barbara Shelly, daugh- ter of John and Mary (Snyder) Shelly, Aug. 20


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1837. During her 28 years of widowhood, she lived with all her children, until her decease, June 12, 1904.


Their children were: Mary Ann, Titus, Amanda, Lewis Shelly, John, and Henry Syl- vester Jacoby. Mary Ann died, aged 22 years. Amanda married Henry Unangst, and died near Pleasant Valley, Bucks county, Feb. 16, 1888.


Titus resides at Bethlehem, Pa .; Lewis S. and John, at Allentown ; and Henry, at Ithaca, N. Y.


LEWIS S. JACOBY, a civil engineer and archi- tect, long a resident of Allentown, is a native of Bucks county, Pa. He is a second son of Peter L. and Barbara (Shelly) Jacoby ; was born April 4, 1848, on the old Jacoby homestead near Spring- town, Bucks county; spent his childhood, youth and early manhood at home, attending the public schools and academy at Springtown, then he at- tended a private school, taking up the higher branches of education.


He then became a teacher in the public schools of Springtown in 1865, and in 1867 taught one term in "Hellers School," in the Upper Saucon Valley, Lehigh county. In 1868, he removed to Allentown, and soon afterward entered the office of G. A. Aschbach, a leading civil engineer and architect, where he remained three and one-half years, when he became associated in business with Mr. Aschbach, and they moved their office to New York City, where Mr. Jacoby took a spe- cial course in architectural work, in Cooper Insti- tute.




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