Jacob Long and Catherine Ann Doverspike

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Husband Jacob Long ¹

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           Born: 3 May 1839 - Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: Jacob Long (1796-1867) 1
         Mother: Sarah Huffman (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 1865 4

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Wife Catherine Ann Doverspike ³

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           Born: Dec 1839 4
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           Died: 21 Apr 1912 - Phoenix, Armstrong Co, PA 4
         Buried:  - Phoenix, Armstrong Co, PA

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         Father: Daniel Doverspike (1818-1894) 5
         Mother: Margaret "Peggie" Beck (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 F Valeria Long ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Nanina May Long ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M Daniel Webster Long ⁴

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         Spouse: Lottie Matthews (      -      ) 4

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4 M Barclay Esco Long ⁴

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         Spouse: Cora Hetrick (      -      ) 4

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5 M George Hubert Long ⁴

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         Spouse: Dessie Smith (      -      ) 4

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6 F Effie Long ⁷

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         Spouse: Luke Shumaker (      -      ) 7

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7 F Elsie Long ⁷

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         Spouse: David Keppel (      -      ) 7

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8 M Jacob H. Long ⁷

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         Spouse: Bertha Little (      -      ) 7

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9 F Pansy Alice Long ⁸

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            AKA: Pansie Long 7
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         Spouse: Charles Kelsey Barnett (      -      ) 8

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Long

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He began his education in the schools of his native county and continued to attend school after the removal of the family to Red Bank township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He was given good advantages, attending until twenty-one years old, after which he taught two terms in Red Bank township, first at Chestnut Ridge and later at the Cross Roads school. During the summers he worked for his father on the farm, in the winter time rafting logs on the creeks and digging coal both for his neighbors and in his own coal banks. During the Civil war period he bought a tract of seventy acres in Red Bank township, at that time mostly in timber, which he cut, rafting it to Pittsburgh. He also bought timber from other parties which he rafted to the market at Pittsburgh, being engaged in this work off and on for four years. He had considerable experience in the oil fields, where he worked for a year, there receiving the highest wages he ever earned. He was employed near Oil City and did drill­ing, pumping, hewing timber and cutting cordwood. He made other purchases of farm land, his holdings eventually aggregating about 150 acres, one hundred acres of which were cleared and the balance in timber. Though he was engaged in lumbering for some years he sold considerable of his timber on the stump, and his son, George H. Long, had a portable sawmill on his property and was cutting the remainder of his timber. Until 1885 Mr. Long carried on farming in connection with his other operations, in that year embarking in the general mercantile busi­ness, buying a store at Phoenix, Armstrong County, which he carried on for about twenty years. When he first gave up that business he lived retired about six years and then con­ducted his store again for three years, at the end of which time he again retired. His prin­cipal occupation later in life was the raising of bees, of which he had some thirteen colonies. He owned a half interest in a grist­mill at Phoenix, which his son-in-law, C. K. Barnett, operated, and he owned a tract of twenty-two acres in Wayne township, Armstrong County, which was occupied by his son Barclay E. Long (an addition to the 150 acres before mentioned).
Mr. Long held positions of high re­sponsibility in his locality. He was once treasurer of the township, and for one term a notary public, his commission expiring March 10, 1913. He was quite prominent in church work. Originally a member of the Lutheran Church, he served as elder, later joining the Methodist Church at Phoenix, of which he was a trustee, and he also taught in the Sunday school. At one time early in life he was a member of the Armstrong County Grange. Politically Mr. Long was a Democrat.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 583, 694.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 583.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 584, 694.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 584.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 363, 465, 584, 681.

6 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 363, 584, 681.

7 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 585.

8 Estella B. Keefer, The Keefer Family: Jacob & Catharina 1791 - 1976 (Franklin, PA: Privately Published, 1976), Pg 7.