JACOB GINGERICH

(From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, page 795)
Transcribed by Kris Breid, 31 May 2005

JACOB GINGERICH is one of the prominent farmers of this township. He was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, on April 12, 1848. His parents, Lewis K., and Caroline Sherman* Gingerich, were also born in the same State. Jacob grew to maturity in his native county, and spent his youth on his father’s farm, during the course of which he acquired a good common school education. On May 12, 1871, he married Miss Martha Rosensteel, daughter of Mr. John Rosensteel, of the same county. On his removal to Missouri, he bought a tract of 400 acres which he now operates, and of which 360 are fenced, with 300 in pasture and cultivation. He occupies a fine two-story residence, has a good barn, a suitable grain-house, wagon-shed, corn-crib and a fine young orchard bearing all the hardy varieties of fruit trees adapted to this climate and latitude. Mr. and Mrs. Gingerich have an interesting family of five children, namely: Jennie B., Della C., Lewis H., John and Elwood. For a man of his age he has been very successful, and promises still better for the future.
* According to Don Baker, a Gingerich descendant, this should read "Shuman." His source is Shuman, William C., The George Shuman Family: Genealogy and History (Evanston, IL: privately published, 1913), p. 173

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