Jacob J. Loutzenhiser   

JACOB J. LOUTZENHISER died at his home in West Salem Township on Wednesday morning, November 8, 1888. He was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., April 15, 1796, and was the eldest son of John and Margaret Loutzenhiser. Jacob grew to manhood on the old homestead west of Greenville, and lived in West Salem nearly eighty-nine years. He was twice married, first to Salome Miller in 1821, who bore him ten children, eight of whom grew up. His wife died in 1844, and he was again married March 31, 1847, to Maria J. Paul, who is the mother of ten children. Mr. Loutzenhiser cast his first vote for Monroe, then voted for Jackson, and since that time was a Whig and Republican, casting his vote for Blaine in 1884. He served as county commissioner one term, and deputy sheriff two terms, once under his cousin, Jacob Loutzenhiser.

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History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, page 1186  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.