Biography of Jacob Weirich, pages 594 / 595.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Jacob Weirich is a native of Lancaster County, Pa., born May 8, 1823, the 
eighth of twelve children of John and Elizabeth (Rupe) Weirich, native of 
Pennsylvania, of German parentage.  When he was four years of age his 
parents moved to Wayne County, and he lived with them on a farm till sixteen 
years of age.  He then began to learn the shoemaker’s trade, serving an 
apprenticeship of two and a half years.  After working some time as a 
journeyman he engaged in business for himself, and in 1850 came to De Kalb 
County, Ind., and bought forty acres of wild land on section 16, Fairfield 
Township.  To this he afterward added ten acres, and after getting it 
partially improved sold it and bought the 120 acres which is now his fine 
farm, which he has brought from a wild-timbered state to one of advanced 
cultivation.  He was married April 11, 1844, to Caroline Reinoehl, a native 
of Lebanon County, Pa., daughter of John and Catherine (Johnson) Reinoehl, 
early settlers of Wanye County.  They have had a family of seven children, 
four of whom are living---Joseph, Jesse, John and Alice, wife of Samuel 
Smith.  In politics Mr. Weirich is a Democrat.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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