BIO: Jacob HESS, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 113.
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  JACOB HESS, merchant, Coalmont, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in 
March 19, 1834, in Penn township, son of Henry and Margaret (Wise) 
Hess.  His grandfather, Jacob Hess, was a native of Germany.  He 
settled in Penn township, where he purchased a farm of 250 acres, and 
also bought another farm in Tod township.  He was married to Miss 
Elizabeth Zimmerman, by whom he had one child, Henry.  Jacob Hess (1) 
was an old line Whig.  His church fellowship was with the River 
Brethren.  Henry Hess was born in Penn township, and educated in 
subscription schools.  He was a farmer, both in Penn and Tod townships.  
He was married in Penn townships to Miss Margaret Wise, of Bedford 
county.  Their children were:  Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel Crum); Sarah 
(Mrs. Adam Clarkson), deceased; Jacob; Henry, a farmer in Penn 
township; Abraham, of Colorado; Samuel, of Colorado; Nancy (Mrs. Thomas 
Simeton), of Iowa, deceased; Joseph, of Dudley; Adam, deceased; 
Margaret, deceased; William, of Grafton; and John, a brave soldier in 
the United States army, killed at Antietam.  Mrs. Hess died in Penn 
township, and Mr. Hess married, secondly, Miss Mary Keller, by whom he 
had three children:  Jackson, of Penn township, and two who died in 
infancy.  Mr. Hess is a Republican.
  Jacob Hess (2) attended the public schools of Tod and Penn townships, 
and spent his early days on the farm in Tod township.  For seventeen 
years he cultivated a farm there, after which he sold his property and 
embarked in mercantile pursuits in 1880 at Coalmont.  For the past 
seventeen he has met with good success in this enterprise, and owns the 
store and dwelling house where he now resides.  Mr. Hess is a staunch 
Republican, and has served as assessor of Carbon township.  An 
enterprising and progressive citizen, an honest and able man, he is 
justly respected and esteemed.
  Jacob Hess was married in 1854, in Tod township, to Elizabeth, 
daughter of James Gilam, a merchant of Huntingdon, Pa.  Their children 
are:  Esther (Mrs. George Hicks); James, of Carbon township; Mary (Mrs. 
William Snare), of Illinois.  Mr. Hess is superintendent of the 
Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school, and also steward of the church.