Jacob Reasoner

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Born to Peter Reasoner and Mary Speers in 1768 in Pennsylvania. Married Sarah (last name unknown) in 1787 in Virginia and moved to (likely Nelson Co.) Kentucky in 1790. Left his wife and young children, possibly first to Randolph and St. Claire counties in Illinois (then Indiana Territory), where he joined various fur trapping expeditions into the Northwest. His wife remarried back in Kentucky and declared him dead after seven years in 1803.

Unbeknownst to her, he would die eleven years later in 1814. He, with a couple of other Kentuckians, Hoback and Robinson, were some the first white explorers of the Snake River Valley. They were guides to the Hunt-Astoria expedition to Oregon in 1811. Their hardships and travels are well documented in countless books. He was killed by Nez Perce Indians, with Hoback, Robinson and others during a fur trapping expedition on the North Fork of the Boise river where it meets the Snake River in early 1814.

Jacob Reznor is a proven ancestor recorded with the Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers of Oregon and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, (First Families of Pennsylvania).

Born to Peter Reasoner and Mary Speers in 1768 in Pennsylvania. Married Sarah (last name unknown) in 1787 in Virginia and moved to (likely Nelson Co.) Kentucky in 1790. Left his wife and young children, possibly first to Randolph and St. Claire counties in Illinois (then Indiana Territory), where he joined various fur trapping expeditions into the Northwest. His wife remarried back in Kentucky and declared him dead after seven years in 1803 unbeknownst to her, that he would die eleven years later in 1814. He, with a couple of other Kentuckians, Hoback and Robinson, were some the first white explorers of the Snake River Valley. They were guides to the Hunt-Astoria expedition to Oregon in 1811. Their hardships and travels are well documented in countless books. He was killed by Nez Perce Indians, with Hoback, Robinson and others during a fur trapping expedition on the North Fork of the Boise river where it meets the Snake River in early 1814. Jacob Reznor is a proven ancestor recorded with the Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers of Oregon and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, (First Families of Pennsylvania).