Jacob A. Mast, M.D.
Jacob A. Mast, M. D., one of the most successful physicians of Walnut Creek, where he has practiced for twenty years, is a native of that township, born November 27, 1841, a son of Rev. Abraham and Annie (Beachy) Mast. He received a common-school education and in his youth worked on a farm, but choosing the profession of medicine as his life-work he began reading under the instruction of Dr. Yoder, of Berlin. He then attended lectures at the Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1869. He immediately located at Walnut Creek, where he has since lived and built up an extensive practice. Dr. Mast was married in 1861 to Miss Catherine, daughter of John Rose, of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and they have a family of seven children: Elizabeth, at home; Elmira, wife of William Weiss, in Charm; Lucinda, wife of Moses I. Miller, in Walnut Creek; Susan, wife of John Lantzer, in Walnut Creek; Ella, Florence and Sophia, at home.
Dr. Mast has always taken an active interest in politics, affiliating with the Democratic party. He is a member of the Holmes County Medical Society, an organization in which he is much interested. In 1886 he took into his office, as assistant, Dr. E. J. Luke, a young physician whose prospects for future prosperity are promising. The Doctor and family are members of and active workers in the German Reformed Church.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889