Jacob Weaver
Jacob Weaver, blacksmith, Plain City, was born in Adams County, Penn., October 28, 1828. He is a son of John and Catharine (Fry) Weaver, natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent. He was raised on a farm and worked at farming until thirty-one years of age, when he learned the blacksmith's trade, which he has since followed, a period of twenty four years, eighteen of which were spent in Plain City. In 1853, he married Catharine Kahlor, a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent. They have one child, now the wife of Thomas McMain. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Weaver's parents came to this county in 1839. His grandparents on both sides were soldiers in the Revolutionary war.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]