This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi2.2ACIB/6261 Message Board Post: Lewis Jacoby, a carpenter and builder, was born in Manchester Township, York County, Penn., August 19, 1844, eldest son of John and Catharine (Frantz) Jacoby, who were parents of fifteen children, eleven of whom are now living: Lewis, Henry, Elizabeth, Sarah, William, Adam, Amanda, Anna, Samuel, Augustus, and Alfred. Our subject was reared on his father’s farm and has always lived in this township. He began learning his trade in York, Penn., in 1862, and started business for himself in 1880. Since he began contracting for the erection of buildings he has all the work he can attend to, and has built nearly every house in the village of New Prospect, on Cemetery Hill, near York, Penn. December 25, 1868, he married Adeline Myers, daughter of Peter and Sallie (Hummer) Myers, of Dover Township, and this union has been blessed with five children: Mary Alice, Adelia E., James Latimer, Laura E. (deceased) and Margaret Lucretia. Mr. Jacoby is a member of the Lutheran Church. Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor