JACOB WALTERS
WAGON SHOP.
The first business of this character established at Reno was by Jacob Walters, in 1876. He has conducted the business continuously since that time, and does custom work and general repairing.
Jacob Walters was born in Pennsylvania, on the 12th of December, 1821, and was there reared to manhood. He was married in 1842 to Susanna Weister, a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. The following year he commenced to learn the wagon-maker's trade with his brother-in-law, and in 1848 he moved to Clarion county and bought a farm, where he lived until 1868, when he sold his place and moved to Missouri. There he worked on a farm and at his trade until 1876, when he came to Reno, Cass county, and was there engaged in working at his trade. Mr. and Mrs. Walters have seven children---John, Philip, Albert, Edward, William, Alfretta and Hayes.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 761.
