Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Geesey, Jacob ???? - 1856
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JACOB GEESEY,
was an honored resident of Frankstown township. The old Geesey homestead in
Frankstown township is one of the familiar landmarks of Blair county.  Three
generations of Geeseys have occupied and owned it since Conrad Geesey, the
progenitor of the family in this county, came from York county to make a new
home on the blue Juniata.  Conrad Geesey was a sturdy German pioneer, and
came of the hardy stock that first peopled the now rich and populous county
of York, in Pennsylvania.  Of his sons, Jacob married Margaret, daughter of
Christian Gast, of the village of Frankstown, and shortly after his marriage
removing to Williamsburg.  He there carried on for some years the business of
wagon making.  Later he removed to a farm near by, and about 1838 he purchased
of his father. Conrad, the old homestead in Frankstown township.  Upon that
place Jacob Geesey died in 1856, after a life of industry and usefulness,
leaving behind him a name that was honored and an example that commended
itself as worth of imitation.

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