Jacob C. Heintz
Jacob C. Heintz, manufacturer of The Heintz Wooden Sucker Pump, Montra, Ohio.
Mr. Heintz was born in Jackson Township, near Montra, September 9, 1853. He is a son of George and Magdalena Heintz (deceased). His minority days were spent on a farm until twenty years of age, or 1873, when he engaged as a clerk in a dry-goods store at Anna Station, where he remained until the beginning of the year 1875, when he went to Wapakoneta, where he engaged in the manufacturing of pumps in company with his brother, Philip C. Heintz, with whom he remained as a partner in the business about nine months, or until December, 1875, when he purchased his brother’s interest in the shop, and at once moved his tools and stock to Montra, where he has since been conducting the business with success, manufacturing and selling from $1200 to $1500 worth of pumps each year. He has an extensive trade in Shelby, Auglaize, Logan, Clarke, and Champaign counties, through which he travels with his wagon every summer. He also does an extensive business in boring wells, for which he has all the machinery necessary for the business. On the 11th of October, 1877, he married Miss Sarah E. Towler, of Champaign County, Ohio, daughter of John and Jane Towler. By this union he has three children, viz., Anna A., Ada M., and George C.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883