Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Iseet, Jacob 1760 - June 1, 1852
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JACOB ISEET, 
of German descent, but a native of Bucks county, came to Sinking Valley about
1785, as a single man, and by trade a shoemaker.  He first lived near the
deserted Fort Roberdeau, or Lead Mine Fort, where he followed his trade,
taking in lieu of money for his pay wheat at fifty cents per bushel.  This he
stored in one of the buildings of the old fort, when the failure of the wheat
crop caused the price to advance several dollars per bushel.  With the money
secured from that source he bought the tract of land on which is the Arch
spring, where he put up a saw mill and a small grist mill about 1788.  Later
he removed, but resided at the Arch spring from 1799 until his death, June 1,
1852, at the age of ninety-two years.  In 1795 he was married to Eleanor
Stockdale, and reared three sons and four daughters, two of the latter dying
young.  Mary, a daughter, remained single, and died at the age of eighty-two
years; Eleanor, the other daughter, became the wife of the Hon. John C.
Bucher, of Harrisburg, dying March 6, 1881, at the age of eighty-three
years.  John S., the oldest son, a well known citizen of Spruce Creek;
Samuel, the second son, owner of the Etna iron works in Catharine township;
and Thomas M., the other son, resident of Montreal, Canada.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Eileen.

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