Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 748
JACOB S. VANDERHOOF

Jacob S. VANDERHOOF, a farmer living on section 3, of La Grange Township, came to Harrison County in the autumn of 1854 and located in La Grange Township, where he worked by the month for one year and then went to Crawford County, and worked for Judge DOW until spring of 1846, when he bought one hundred and twenty acres of land on section 11, of La Grange Township. He improved the same, held it three years, sold out and bought on section 5.

This place consisted of two hundred and forty acres. He never lived upon this tract however, and afterward sold it to Mr. LONGMAN. Our subject then bought two hundred and forty acres of his present farm, built a house in which they lived for fifteen year, and then erected his present residence. He has a fine orchard of eight acres, a part of which he planted in 1864 and during the present year, 1891, he will harvest two thousand bushels of apples.

Our subject was born in Cass County, Mich., November 20, 1831, and, when fourteen years of age, he had neither father nor mother, and had to shift for himself. He came from Cass County, Mich., to this county without means and has made a complete success of life.

He was married in LaGrange Township March 23, 1856, to Miss Jane JEWELL, and they are the parents of two children: Chole A. and Martha. Mrs. VANDERHOOF was born in Cass County Mich., in November, 1838, and came to Harrison County with her parents in 1852.

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