Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Clymer, Jacob
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   JACOB CLYMER farmer, P.O. Quakertown, is a descendant of 
one of the pioneer families, and one of the progressive 
farmers of the township.  He was born December 25, 1819, in 
Milford township, and was the fifth son of his parents, who 
were Jacob and Mary (Struak) Clymer.  His paternal 
grandfather was John Clymer, who married Elizabeth Diehl, to 
whom three children were born:  John, Jacob and Mary.  John 
was a teacher, and Mary married a man by the name of Fink, 
and removed to Indiana.  Jacob, the father of our subject, 
was a farmer by occupation, and was for many years justice 
of the peace and representative.  In politics he was a whig. 
 In the latter part of his life he became identified with 
the Mennonite church.  He reared a family of ten children:  
John, Charles, Anna, Joseph, Elizabeth, Henry, Catherine, 
Jacob, Mary and Levi, all settled in Bucks county.  Mr. 
Clymer's father died in January, 1868, in his 87th year; his 
wife died many years previously.  Jacob was reared to 
farming, but in 1850 removed to Philadelphia and engaged in 
the grocery business, continuing there until 1874, when he 
purchased the John Lester farm, and has since remained 
there. He was married in 1844 to Olivia, daughter of David 
and Elizabeth (Shelly) Taylor.  He has one son, Isaiah, who 
resides in the township.