Jacob Allen (1803 - 1879)

Born 11 Feb 1803 in Tompkins, New York, United States

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Died 25 Nov 1879 at age 76 in Akron, Summit, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Jacob was born 11 Feb 1803. He passed away 25 Nov 1879. ^[1]

Google Books: A portrait and biographical record of Portage and Summit counties, Ohio Page 585

Jesse Allen,..., was born in Cornwall, Litchfield county. Conn., in 1770, and there learned the trade of shoemaking. While still a young man he went to Tompkins county, N. Y. , where in 1797 he married Catherine Fiethrick. (Should be Dietrich) who was born in Trenton, N. J., in 1776, of Holland-Dutch ancestry. He soon after relinquished his trade of shoemaking and bought a farm near Ithaca, Tompkins county, N. Y. , but lost nearly all his property by "bailing" an acquaintance. With the few hundred dollars left in his possession he came to Ohio, arrived in Middlebury July 4, 1811, with his family — a wife and seven children — in company with a brother and family, and bought land in Coventry township. Summit county. During the war of 1812 he was a soldier under .Maj. Miner Spicer, and while away on duty an Indian spy crept to the house, but his little children, working in the clearing, espying their mother's danger, rushed to the cabin with their axes with the intention of annihilating the savage, but the latter made good his escape, and it is thought that he was afterward killed near Summit lake. Mr. Allen was a member of the Baptist church and an excellent reader and elocutionist, and it was his custom, before ministers of his denomination made their advent in his neighborhood, to read sermons in the pioneer meetings. He succeeded in clearing up his farm and in developing a comfortable home, where he died in the Baptist faith September 12, 1837, the father of ten children, viz: Jonah, who married Cynthia Spicer; Levi; David, who married Beulah Jones; Jacob, married to Catherine Van Sickle; John; Jesse; Catherine, married to Mills Thompson; Sarah, wife of James Hale; Hiram; and Christiana, now Mrs. Charles Caldwell.

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune Wednesday, Nov 26, 1879 Cincinnati, OH Vol: XL Issue: 63 Page: 2

JACOB ALLEN AKRON, O., November 25. - This morning Jacob Allen died in his seventy-seventh year, after a trying Illness. Deceased resided in Akron since 1835, and has always been one of Akron's most enterprising and public spirited citizens, having owned the first four woolen factories. He married Miss Catherine VanSickle at Ithaca, New York, in 1830. He was highly esteemed.

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1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed: October 2020) Jacob Allen (1803-1879) - Find A Grave Memorial no.19518150, citing Glendale Cemetery, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Pamela Parks Costa (contributor 46842959). Find A Grave: Memorial #19518150

• With family and 10 sources: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9M49-XWL

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX74-R88 : 21 December 2020), Jacob Allen, Akron, Summit, Ohio, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCHF-82P : 11 November 2020), Jacob Allen, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6LT-64Y : 3 January 2021), Jacob Allen, 1870.

See also:

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19518150/jacob-allen