Jacob L Heyd

JACOB L. HEYD, farmer, P. O. Camp Hill, was born 1833 In Upper Allen Township, this county, son of George H«yd, who died in Mechanicsburg in 1876, aged eighty-two. His mother was Leah, daughter of Jacob Grass, of Adams County, Penn. His paternal grandfather, George Heyd, emigrated from Germany in 1760, settling in Lancaster County, afterward moving to York County, Penn., and subsequently to Cumberland County, where he died, and is buried not far from where his grandson lives, The father of Jacob L. was born in Lancaster County, and went with his parents to York County, staying there six years, when he came to Cumberland County, and here lived more than fifty years. Our subject lived with his father until, at the age of twenty-three, be was married to Miss Catharine, daughter of Jacob Coovcr, who lived near Dillsburg, York County, Penn. His father gave up the farm to him, and he cultivated it for three years, when he removed to his father-in-law’s farm, in York County, and there lived three years; then bought a small farm in Upper Allen Township, this county, which he owned for fifteen years, selling it in 1877 and buying the fine 100-sere farm on which he now lives. He has taken grant pains to beautify his place and make it a comfortable home, as is evinced by its surroundings, which are greatly superior to those usually found on a farm. He has two sons living: Clinton G., twenty-two years old, bookkeeper for a wholesale hardware house in Harrisburg, and Coover W. fourteen years of age, attending school. Mr. Heyd has three brothers and three sisters living: H. G. of Philadelphia; George W., belonging to the Baltimore Conference, and E, D., who lives in Dakota. Of his three sisters, Elizabeth is a widow of Henry Krell; Rebecca is wife of Michael Myers of Carlisle, and Mary is wife of Jacob Brant, of Upper Allen Township. Mr. Heyd was Justice of the peace In Upper Allen Township; he n now school director. He takes a warm interest in educational matters and was prominent in the movement to have Camp Hill made a borough; to give its people increased school facilities. He and his wife are communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church In Mechanicsburg. In all the relations of life he is known as a man of sterling character, whose uprightness and probity are well spoken of by every person to whom he is known,