BIOS: Jesse Thomas JEFFERY, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pa.; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub.: The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago, 1906, pg. 221.

Jesse Thomas Jeffery, of Salisbury, is the son of Richard Jeffery, who was 
born May 18, 1831, in Cornwall, England, and in 1851 emigrated to the United 
States, settling in Michigan.  Later he moved to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and 
has lived at different times in Fayette and Westmoreland counties, but is now 
a resident of Salisbury.  He belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the 
Improved Order of Red Men, and is a Republican in politics.  He is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal church.  Mr. Jeffery married, at Johnstown, Ann, 
daughter of Jesse Berkebile, of Shade township, and they were the parents of 
one child, Jesse Thomas, see forward.
Jesse Thomas Jeffery, son of Richard and Ann (Berkebile) Jeffery, was born 
July 15, 1867, at Barton, Allegheny county, Maryland, and attended the public 
schools of Dunbar, Union and Mount Pleasant, all of Pennsylvania.  At the age 
of sixteen he left school and worked in the mines until 1893, when he met 
with an accident which rendered him unable to continue his labors.  The same 
year he opened a grocery and confectionery, which he conducted until 1906, 
when he sold his business and returned to mining.  He is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias and adheres to the Republican party.  He attends the 
Reformed church.
Mr. Jeffery married, February 5, 1888, Mary A., daughter of James Cochran, of 
West Salisbury, and they are the parents of three children: Leona, born 
August 1, 1889; Richard, May 25, 1892; and James Glenn, February, 1894.