BIO:  Jacob F. Scott, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Newberry Township, Pg 156

JACOB F. SCOTT was born October 31, 1848, in Baltimore County, Md., and is the 
eldest of seven children born to Frederick T. and Elizabeth A. (Cook) Scott, 
natives of Maryland, and of Irish and German descent, respectively.  He remained 
with his parents until he was eighteen years of age, when he began business for 
himself.  He served an apprenticeship in a machine-shop in Baltimore, and came to 
York, Penn., about 1868, and worked at his trade.  He was married, in the fall of 
1872, to Ellen T. Ihnen, daughter of Henry S. and Eliza (Sigersmith) Ihnen, of 
German descent.  They have had five children:  Frederick I., Jeanetta C., Oscar 
C., Emma H. and an infant, deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. Scott belong to the Episcopal 
Church.  He is a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 240, at Whistler, Ala.; and of 
Division 93, Jackson, Tenn., of the brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.  He is 
an engineer and has run the engine on the Peach Bottom Railroad for seven years.  
He is also working his father’s farm and saw-mill.