JACOB C. MC GRANAHAN, farmer, post-office Kennard, was born January 10, 1811, in Sugar Grove Township. His father, William, located here about 1800, on a farm of 106 acres. He was married to Mrs. Margaret Covodor, to which union there were born five children: Jared, Jacob, John, John (2nd) and Susanna, of whom Jacob is the only surviving one. William was a soldier in the War of 1812, where he served three months. Politically he was a Democrat, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

He died in 1863 in his eighty-second year, and his wife died in 1851 in her eighty-second year. Jacob, our subject, was married, in 1835, to Nancy A., daughter of Samuel Walker, of Sugar Grove Township. They located in Salem Township, where they lived two years, when they moved to Adamsville, Crawford County, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was elected justice of the peace, which office he filled for ten years. In 1852 he located on a farm that was left to him by his father in Sugar Grove Township, where he still resides. There were two children born to them: Eliza J., wife of P. Boltner, and William. Jacob’s wife died November 18, 1842, and he was married the second time, July 6, 1843, to Miss Ellen, daughter of John Irvine, of Crawford County. To them were born six children: John, Alonzo, Lewis C.; Emeline, wife of David Callahan; Amanda, wife of K. M. Wright, and Andrew. Lewis C. was killed instantly, on the second day of May, 1888, by a plank falling from a derrick and striking him on top of the head.  Politically our subject is a Democrat, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church for thirty years. His wife died November 18, 1885, at the age of sixty-two.