Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Ake, Jacob 1754 - April 1838
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JACOB AKE,
the founder of Williamsburg, was of German parentage, his father having been
an early emigrant from Germany to the Cocococheague country.  He died at
Williamsburg, in April, 1838, at the age of 84 years.  Many of his
descendants still reside here.
   The earliest elementary school in the annals of the district was established
about 1790 by Mr. Ake, who was the owner of the land on which the village of
Aketown (now Williamsburg) was laid out.  Seeing the necessity of educational
training among the young, Mr. Akes [sic] secured teachers and defrayed all
expenses from his private purse.  His word was regarded as law with the
youth, and when he issued a command the parentage acquiesced and the children
rendered obedience.  Thus it was when the pioneer resident established his
first school.  He visited village householders, brandished his staff, and the
children hied away to school.

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