Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Weaver, Jacob January 26, 1844 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      Jacob Weaver, merchant, Nettle Hill, Penna, was born 
on Ten Mile Creek, Greene county, January 26, 1844. He is a 
son of Jacob Weaver and Julia Ann Jackman Weaver, who were 
of German and English origin. His father was a farmer and 
school teacher and lived in Greene county for forty years. 
He died in 1886. His family consisted of nine children of 
whom the subject of this sketch is the seventh. 
  
      He was reared on the farm in Jackson township, Greene 
county, Penna, receiving his education in the common 
schools. He learned the blacksmith's trade near Waynesburg 
and followed it as a business until 1861. He then enlisted 
in Company F, Eighty fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. 
He re-enlisted in 1864 in the Twenty Second Pennsylvania 
Cavalry, Company A, where he served until the end of the 
war. He was in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, 
Bolivar Heights and Winchester. He was wounded at Fair Oaks, 
losing two fingers. 
  
      After the war he bought a saw mill, operating the 
latter for a period of five years. He then farmed until 1880 
when he established his store on Nettle Hill. He carries a 
large stock of dry goods, clothing, groceries, hardware and 
queensware, and has a good country trade. Mr Weaver has 
built his present store and a neat and substantial residence 
since 1886. 
  
      He was united in marriage, December 5, 1867, with Miss 
Elizabeth Hickman, daughter of Abraham Hickman and Margaret 
Shields Hickman, who died in 1882. He was again married in 
December, 1883, to Miss Eliza Smith, daughter of J Smith and 
Perrie Headlee Smith, and they have two children: Roscoe 
Conkling Weaver and Otta D S Weaver. Mr Weaver is a member 
of the GAR Post and is Quartermaster. 

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