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Jacob B. Hann


JACOB B. HANN,  farmer, was born in Sussex County, N. J., July 24, 1822, and is a son of  Jacob and Elizabeth (Roof) Hann, natives of New Jersey, born in 1783 and 1782, respectively. They were married in August, 1810, and in 1827 removed with a family of six children to Brookfield Township, Trumbull Co., Ohio. In 1880 they settled on the old Hann homestead in Hickory Township, Mercer Co., Penn., where the remaining years of their lives were spent. The father died October 8 and the mother October 24, 1874, each being in their ninety-second year. They were life-long members of the Baptist Church, and in the August preceding their death celebrated the sixty-fourth anniversary of their marriage. They reared the following children:  Sarah A.  (deceased wife of  William Applegate), Christopher  (deceased),  Mary (deceased wife of  Henry Shilling,  deceased),  James, Jacob B. and Elizabeth J.  (widow of Lemuel Troutman). Our subject grew to manhood on the old homestead, where he resided up to the spring of 1884, when he removed to Sharon. He was married, in October, 1854, to  Miss Nancy,  daughter of  William Titus, of Hickory Township. She died in the Baptist faith in September, 1863. He was again married, January 30, 1868, to  Miss Jennie, daughter of  John and Kate (Groves) Cauffield, of Brookfield Township, Trumbull Co., Ohio. Her parents were natives of. Ireland, who immigrated to Ohio in 1825, where both spent the remaining years of their lives. Mrs. Hann is the mother of one daughter by this marriage - Drusie. She is a member of the Disciple Church. Politically Mr. Hann is a Democrat, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity.

History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 727-728



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