Jacob Silver
- Born: 1786, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
 General Notes:
History of Cass County, by Glover, 1906, p. 85, SILVER, Jacob born in New Hampshire in 1786; came to Edwardsburg in 1830 and to Cassopolis in 1832; died Nov 5, 1872; Abigail Piper, his wife, died in NH; second wife, Maria Goodrich, born in 1796 and died at Cassopolis Dec 14, 1876.
....Jacob, the oldest son, was born in Newport, New Hampshire, in 1786.
In 1806, he married Abigail Piper, by whom he had five children, only
one of whom--Mrs. E.B. Sherman--is now living. In 1837 he married
Mrs. Maria Goodrich, who still survives him.
In 1830 he formed a partnership with his two younger brothers, Abiel
and Benjamin F., for trading in the West, either at Chicago or Ottowa...
|
