Jacob F. Held
JACOB F. HELD, who owns a farm of 120 acres in Bethel township, Armstrong county, is a native of Germany but has lived in this neighborhood from childhood. He was born Sept. 11, 1847, at Stuttgart, son of David and Christina (Held) Held, his parents being distantly related.David Held was born Dec. 16, 1816, his wife June 24, 1821, both being natives of M�nsheim, near Stuttgart. He was a tailor by trade. They were married in February, 1843, and had the following children:
and one died in infancy.
- Regina, born in Germany, married Joseph Frantz;
- George, born in Germany, married Helena Wall;
- Jacob F. married Mary Ann Shaeffer;
- Frederick, born in Germany, married Susanna Lessig;
- Mary, born in Germany, is unmarried;
- Louisa, born in Manor township, Armstrong Co., Pa. married Samuel Kunkle, and is deceased;
- Hiram, born in Burrell township, Armstrong county, married Isabella Young;
The family came to America in 1856, the voyage across the Atlantic taking forty four days (they were on a sandbar not far from New York City for four days), and arrived in Gilpin township, Armstrong county, the fall of that year. Later they moved to Manor township, this county, and thence in 1862 to Burrell township, where Mr. and Mrs. Held died, his death occurring Feb. 19, 1882, hers on April 6, 1901. In religious faith they were Lutherans.
Jacob F. Held was a boy of nine years when he came with the family to America, and he has since lived in Armstrong county. He learned the trade of miller, which he followed for a number of years, but for the last twenty four years he has devoted all his time to farming, in which he has met with gratifying success. He has occupied his present home farm in Bethel township, a tract of 120 acres, since 1890. Mr. Held has not only looked well after his own affairs, but has found time to assist in the local government, and he is well thought of by his fellow citizens, who have elected him to the offices of school director and township auditor; he has filled the latter position for nine years. He and his family are members of Bethel Lutheran Church, of which he has been treasurer since I897 except for one year.
On Dec. 16, 1869, Mr. Held married Mary Ann Shaeffer, a native of Armstrong county, daughter of David and Margaret (Hartman) Shaeffer. Their family is as follows: John David, born Nov. 22, 1870 married Rosanna Smail and has eight children, Arthur, Harry, Earl, Edna, Torrence; Margaret, Thomas and Mary I.; Elizabeth C., born Oct. 6, 1872, married Finley Mansfield and has children, Ruth, Margaret, Bessie, Jacob W., Anna, Claire, Joseph, Hannah and Mildred; Joseph Frantz, born July 13, 1874, married Lilie Remaley, and has one son, Gerald; Wilmer Lewis, born Oct. 28, 1878, married Effie Shellhamer, and they have two children, Althera and Owen; Margaret R., born Jan. 24, 1883 is the wife of Ollie Hill and has two children, Melvin and Margaret; Samuel K., born April 22, 1876, married Grace Wolford, and they have seven children, Burton, Helen, Earnest, Eugene, Homer, Eleanor and Robert L.; Roy H., born Dec. 21, 1880, married Maude Hileman, daughter of Zachary T. Hileman, and has two children, Vernon and Merle; Anna born March 15, 1885, married Lawrence Shoop and they have three children, Florence, Glen and Dale; Salina Pearl, born April 7, 1887, married Bruce Smith and has one son, Frederick H.; Walter Warren, born Nov. 11, 1891, is unmarried; Rose May, born May 22, 1893, married George Brown and they have two children, Everett S. and Edmund G.; Nellie Beatrice and Charles E. are at home.
Jacob F. Held is a member of Kittanning Lodge, No. 251, Royal Arcanum, and of Grange No. 549 , P. O. H., of Center Valley.
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Transcriber notes:
- Jacob F. Held was not born in Stuttgart, as stated above, but in the village of M�nsheim, about 15 miles NW of Stuttgart.
- Jacob's father, (Johann) David Held, and his mother, Christina, were not from the same village, as indicated above:
- Christina was born in M�nsheim, where they resided after they were married on 26 February 1843 in M�nsheim, and
- David (Johann David) was born in the nearby village of Aurich.
Source: Pages 835, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed September 2001 by Fred H. Held for the Armstrong County Beers Project
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