Jacob Henry Landenberger and Elizabeth Frances Reed

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Husband Jacob Henry Landenberger ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Lower Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co, PA
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         Father: William Henry Landenberger (1829-1883/1885) 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Overholt (1832-Aft 1912) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1894 4

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   Other Spouse: Lulu Hough (      -1887) 4 - 1883 4

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Wife Elizabeth Frances Reed ^{4 5}

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           Born:  - East Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Father: Josiah Reed (1823-      ) 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth Cottom (1826-      ) 6 7 8

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Children

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1 F Alice Landenberger ⁴

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           Died: when one year old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Mary Landenberger ⁴

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           Born: 10 Nov 1897 4
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3 M William H. Landenberger ⁴

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           Born: 8 Oct 1899 4
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4 M Josiah Landenberger ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Henry Landenberger

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He attended the Quay public school, after which he spent two terms at the Pennsylvania State Normal School at California, Pennsylvania. While yet a minor he learned his father's trade of stonemason and furnace builder, and while at Normal School took courses in mechanical drawing, which was of great value to him in their business. He worked with his father for several years and with him built many furnaces at the glass works throughout the country. They opened a quarry of fire stone on the home farm where they cut and dressed all stone used in work convenient for shipment. After the death of his father Jacob H. continued the business for a few years, then the advent of natural gas and the invention of tank glass furnaces so revolutionized glass manufacturing methods that the old style stone furnaces were no longer in demand. They employed from ten to twenty-five men in the quarry, and from 1890 to 1893 this quarry furnished all the stone used in the construction of the Fayette county court house and jail at Uniontown.
Mr. Landenberger was a Republican in politics and served as township road supervisor, county road commissioner, for ten years school director, and in 1912 was appointed county road viewer. He was an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which his wife was a member.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 866.

2 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 72.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 865.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 867.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 59.

6 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 328.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 245.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 59, 307.