Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Bassler, Rev. Jacob S. May 14, 1829 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

REV. JACOB S. BASSLER, 
pastor of the Children of Zion church, of Martinsburg, and a member of the
foundry and machine shop firm of Snoeberger Bros.
    Bassler, is a son of Rev. Andrew and Barbara (Stern) Bassler, native of
Washington county, Maryland, and was born in Middle Woodbury township,
Bedford county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1829.  His paternal great-grandfather,
Valentine Bassler, was a native of Basle, Germany, born August 25, 1738, who
came to Pennsylvania, and settled in Lancaster county, where he died in 1806,
when in the sixty-eighth year of his age.  His son, Jacob Bassler
(grandfather), was born in 1765, and in 1812 went to Bedford county, in which
he died on March 12, 1867, aged seventy-two years.  Jacob Bassler followed
blacksmithing, farming and distilling.  He was a federalist and whig in
polities, and a member of the Mennonite church, and married Mary Shank, by
whom he had seven children, three sons and four daughters.  One of these
sons, Rev. Andrew Bassler (father), was born in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, November 29, 1804, and went with his father to Bedford county,
this State, from which, in 1870, he came to Martinsburg, where he has since
resided.  He was an active and efficient minister of the River Brethren
church for over forty years, and only retired from regular ministerial work
when disqualified by advanced age.  He is a republican in political views,
has served as overseer of the poor and school director, and now resides upon
his farm.  He married Barbara Stern, who is a native of Washington county,
Maryland, and to this union were born seven children, three sons and four
daughters.
    Jacob S. Bassler received his education in the early common schools, and
spent twenty years in farming in Bedford county.  He then, in 1870, came to
Blair county, and nineteen years later relinquished farming to engage in the
foundry and machine shop business as a member of the firm of Snoeberger Bros.
& Bassler.  This firm employs eight men, does all kinds of work in their line
of business, and makes a specialty of repairing.  They turn out good work,
and have a large and remunerative patronage.
    November 13, 1855, Rev. Jacob S. Bassler married Lydia Shank, of
Waynesboro, Franklin county, and they have four children:  Anna B., wife of
Levi Acker, a retired farmer of this county; Susan E., married Jacob Gresser,
who is now engaged in farming; J. Harry, who married Fannie Coffman, and is a
machinist of the firm of Snoeberger Bros. & Bassler; and Minnie C., married
J. I. Mock, of Woodbury, a teacher in the public schools of North Woodbury
township. 
    Rev. Jacob S. Bassler is a republican in politics, and has served his
township as a school director and a supervisor of roads.  He was a member of
the Brethren in Christ church for a long time, and then united with the
Children of Zion church at Martinsburg, of which he has been pastor for the
last eight years.  He is an efficient minister and a pleasant and courteous
gentleman.

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