Jacob Wyeth (1764 - 1857)

Born 29 Apr 1764 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Jarvis) Wyeth — married Nov 1796 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 14 Jan 1857 at age 92 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Jacob Wyeth was born 29 April 1764 at Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, died there 14 January 1857, son of Ebenezer Wyeth (1727-1799) and Mary (Winship) Wyeth (1730-17980; married November 1796 to Elizabeth Jarvis, daughter of Nathaniel Jarvis (abt. 1746-abt 1801) and Elizabeth (Tainter) Jarvis ; Jacob is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

Children of Jacob Wyeth and Elizabeth (Jarvis) Wyeth, all born at Cambridge, Mass.:

• Jacob Wyeth, b. 10 Feb 1797, died in Illinois in 1841, graduated Harvard as an M. D. in 1820.
• Leonard Jarvis Wyeth, b. 179 8, died 1855 in New York City.
• Charles Wyeth, b. 1800, moved to Baltimore, Md,; his son Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth grad. Harvard 1850 (LLD 1852).
• Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth, b. 1802, died Cambridge Mass. 29 Aug 1856.

Biographical entry from Necrology of alumni of Harvard College (1864): ^[1]

JACOB WYETH died in Cambridge, Mass., 14 January, 1857, aged 92. He was son of Ebenezer Wyeth, and was born in Cambridge, Mass., 29 April, 1764. He worked at brick-making, which was his father's occupation, until he was twenty-three or twenty-four years old, when he concluded to obtain a liberal education ; and after six months only, devoted to the preparatory studies, he was admitted to the freshman class. Although so imperfectly prepared, he maintained a respectable rank as a scholar, and graduated with distinction. Soon after leaving college, he went to Hamburg to transact some business for Andrew Craigie, Esq., either in Hamburg or England. On his return, he brought home some European goods, which he had purchased on his own account. These goods he disposed of at a large profit, and soon afterwards married Betsey Jarvis, daughter of Nathaniel Jarvis, of Cambridge. He then entered into partnership with Phineas Stone (who married his wife's sister) and they established themselves in Littleton, Mass., as country traders. In this business they were unsuccessful, became insolvent, and Mr. Wyeth was left without a dollar. He returned to Cambridge, and his father gave him a deed of the land on which the Fresh Pond Hotel now stands. He made a contract with Walter and Moore, and they erected for him the hotel entirely on credit; he giving them a mortgage on the property as security. In eighteen months after he opened the house, he paid the contractors every dollar he owed them; having made it all in this brief period in keeping the public house. He continued in the hotel business until he accumulated a handsome fortune, when he retired, but resided in the house until death closed his long life.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.geneanet.org/archives/ouvrages?action=detail&livre_id=5459124&page=114&book_type=livre&search_type=livre&name=WYETH&with_variantes=0&tk=e45ae93bb18c328e

• Grousset, Agnes M., Horns A’Plenty: Newells, Tiemanns, Wyeths, (Baltimore: Gateway Press Inc., 1980), p. 14.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124667281/jacob-wyeth : accessed 07 October 2021), memorial page for Jacob Wyeth (29 Apr 1764–14 Jan 1857), Find a Grave Memorial ID 124667281, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Saratoga (contributor 46965279) .