Archibald Job and Jane Brierley

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Husband Archibald Job ¹

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           Born: 10 Mar 1784 - Baltimore, MD 2
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       Marriage: 8 Oct 1816 2

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Wife Jane Brierley ^{1 3}

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           Born: 23 Aug 1796 - Mifflin Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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           Died: Aft 1876
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         Father: Robert Brierley (1749-      ) 1 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Bell (      -      ) 1

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Archibald Job

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He and his wife left Pittsburgh in an "ark," or house built on a flatboat, in 1820, and floated down the Ohio river to Cairo and from that point up the Mississippi river to St. Louis, where they spent the winter. The following spring they advanced to the mouth of the Illinois river, proceeded up that stream to where Beardstown was later founded, and there Mr. Job entered a large tract of land and became one of the foremost men of that part of the country, having filled a number of county offices and served several terms in the legislature. They reared a large family.

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Brierley

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She was living at Ashland, Illinois, as late as 1876, then being eighty years of age and remembering perfectly the most minute incidents of her early life, often speaking of Abraham Lincoln, whom she had boarded and befriended in the early days of his career.

1 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 264.

2 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 265.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1108.