Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Delp, Jacob B. August 26, 1864 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

JACOB B. DELP. The Delps are an old family of German 
descent, long settled in Hatfield and adjoining townships in 
Bucks and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania. Isaac 
(grandfather) was educated in the schools of his day, and 
devoted his life to farming interests. He married a Hatfield 
woman, and their only child was Ephraim, who was born on the 
farm in Hatfield township at that time occupied by his 
parents.
 
Ephraim Delp was educated in neighborhood schools, and then 
became interested in farming, which pursuit he still 
follows. He married a Mrs. Baker and had the following 
children Henry, Amanda, Charles, Ida, Addie, four who died 
young, and Jacob.

Jacob B. Delp was born in Hatfield township, on the family 
homestead, August 26, 1864. He was educated in the public 
schools of Hatfield township, and then took a course at 
Ursinus College, and still later a commercial course at the 
North Wales Academy and School of Business, conducted for 
many years by the late Professor Samuel U. Brunner. He then 
engaged in the occupation of teaching for several years, 
taking charge of schools in Lower Salford and Franconia 
townships. He met with much success in this calling, but 
being desirous of a more active and remunerative occupation 
he learned the carpenter trade, and made a decided success 
of that business from the beginning. He engaged very 
extensively in building and in the borough of Souderton, and 
has erected Inane homes that are very creditable to his 
skill and genius in his profession. Mr. Delp is an earnest 
Republican, and is at present a useful and valued member of 
the town council of the borough of Souderton. He has the 
unbounded confidence of all his fellow citizens, and has 
done much to promote the interests of the community in which 
he lives.

He married in 1889 Miss Sarah Moyer, daughter of Hezekiah 
Moyer, of an old Mennonite family. Her father, now deceased, 
was an able farmer of Lower Salford. The children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Jacob Delp: Elmer, Ephraim, Annie C., and another that 
died in childhood.

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