Husband Capt. Adam Jacobs 1 2 3
Born: 7 Jan 1817 - Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA 1 3 4
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Died: 13 Dec or 18 Dec 1883 5 6
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Father: Adam Jacobs (1794-1822) 1 5 7
Mother: Eliza Reiley (1795-1848) 1 5 8 9
Marriage: 22 Feb 1838 1 5 6
Wife Ann Snowdon 1 6 10
Born: 16 Aug 1816 - England 1 6
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Father: Capt. John Snowdon (1796/1796-1875) 11 12
Mother: Mary Smith ( - ) 12 13
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1 F Mary Eliza Jacobs 1 5 6
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Spouse: William Parkhill ( - ) 1 5 6
2 M Capt. Adam Jacobs, Jr. 1 5 6
Born: 8 Aug 1840 - Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA 6
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Spouse: Laura Imogene Myers (1842-1891) 1
Marr: 14 Jul 1864 6
3 F Catharine Jacobs 1 5 6
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Spouse: S. S. Graham ( - ) 1 5 6
4 M John Nelson Jacobs 1 5 14
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Spouse: Sarah Colvin ( - ) 1
5 F Caroline S. "Carrie" Jacobs 1 5 6
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Spouse: John H. Bowman ( - ) 1 5 6
6 F Anna Jacobs 1 5 6
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Spouse: Joseph McBurney ( - ) 5
7 M Martin Reiley Jacobs 1 3
AKA: Martin B. Jacobs 5
Born: 8 Jul 1855 - Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA 3
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Spouse: Elizabeth Edmiston ( - ) 6
Marr: 18 Mar 1896 6
8 M George D. Jacobs 1 6
AKA: George R. Jacobs 5
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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Adam Jacobs
He received his early education in the pay schools, and at about sixteen years of age was apprenticed to G. W. Bowman to learn coppersmithing, and remained with him four years. He then went into the business for himself, and in a year or two afterwards took to steamboating on the western rivers, and continued steamboating until 1847. He was at this time, and had been for years before, engaged also in building steamboats, and from 1847 forward prosecuted steamboat-building vigorously, at times having as many as eight boats in a year under contract. He built over a hundred and twenty steamboats before practically retiring from the business about 1872, after which time, however, he built about five boats for the Pittsburgh, Brownsville and Geneva Packet Company, and other contracts. Capt. Jacobs was also engaged in merchandising, with all the rest of his active business, from 1843 to 1865, and was still merchandising later, for he continued to keep a store at East Riverside.
After about 1872 he spent his time mostly in Brownsville in the winters and at his country residence, "East Riverside," Luzerne township, on the Monongahela River, during the summer seasons.
While learning the trade of coppersmith with G. W. Bowman, he obtained a very limited education. After two or three business ventures he engaged in the steamboat business which he followed until 1872. He commanded several and built 125 steamboats that plied upon the western waters. During this time he was interested, more or less, in milling, banking, mining, farming, merchandising and railroading. In 1865 he purchased 1,000 acres of land on the Monongahela river, eight miles southwest of Brownsville, which he named "East Riverside."
He purchased a tract of land containing one thousand acres, in Luzerne township, Fayette County, about eight miles from Brownsville, calling it East Riverside, where a postoffice was established by the same name. He retired to his farm in 1872. Not being satisfied with a quiet life, he established a boat yard on his farm, and there built five boats for the Pittsburg, Brownsville and Geneva Packet Company. Thinking there was coal underlying his farm, he ran a slope, (commencing in the hill about fifty feet above the river) four hundred and sixty feet at a grade of one foot in three where he struck a ten foot vein of fine coal.