Jacob M. Schoch and Angeline Kessler

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Husband Jacob M. Schoch ¹

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           Born: 25 Jul 1850 - New Berlin, Union Co, PA 1
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         Father: Sem Schoch (1805-1887) 2
         Mother: Margaret Ruhl (1809-1887) 3

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       Marriage: 9 Feb 1875 - New Berlin, Union Co, PA 4

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Wife Angeline Kessler ⁴

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           Born: 6 Mar 1851 4
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         Father: John Kessler (      -      ) 4 5
         Mother: Catharine Spangler (      -Bef 1898) 4 5

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Children

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1 M Edward C. Schoch ⁶

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           Born: 3 Sep 1876 6
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2 F Alice M. Schoch ⁶

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           Born: 24 Jul 1882 6
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General Notes: Husband - Jacob M. Schoch

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The first eighteen years of his life were passed in his birthplace, where he attended the public schools for some time, but he completed his education in Union Seminary (later Central Pennsylvania College) at New Berlin, re-ceiving such an education as would fit him for a successful business career. His father being a tanner in New Berlin, he was often employed in the tannery during boyhood, grinding bark, and doing such other work as his strength would permit.
When still in his teens he became a clerk in the store of Rathfon & Winters, where he secured his first knowledge of mercantile business. But New Berlin was not the place for an enterprising, progressive young man, and in March, 1869, he concluded to go west. After a few days spent in Chicago, however, he decided to return to the east and locate in Philadelphia. He entered the wholesale notion store of Park, File & Co., as a clerk at a salary of $10 per week. For twenty-one years Mr. Schoch re-mained with that firm, but beginning in September, 1890, he was connected the Young, Smyth, Field & Co., of Philadelphia, one of the largest wholesale houses in their line in the United States. For almost thirty years he spent much of his time on the roads as a traveling salesman; he later spent only a few months of each year in traveling, making his home in Philadelphia, but passed the summer with his family at New Berlin.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 935, 1003.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 877, 934.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 935.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1003.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 447.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1004.