Jacob G. Vale

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Husband Jacob G. Vale ¹

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1 F Martha Margaret Vale ¹

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           Born:  - Van Buren Co, IA
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         Spouse: Robert Magee Downie (Abt 1853-1924) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob G. Vale

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He was a State Senator in Iowa for a number of terms and at one time candidate for governor.

The Vale family came of Quaker stock. The progenitor of the family in America was Robert Vale, a ship-owner, engaged in bringing Hollandese immigrants over to William Penn's colony in America. The story is that one of these immigrants, very young and charming, lost her purse and ticket and was befriended by Captain Vale, who took her to friends in Philadelphia, and later, when he quit the sea, married her. William Penn presented Captain Vale with a thousand-acre tract of land in York County, where the couple lived after their marriage.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 207.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 205.