. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. ailure and he won his victory. The an-cestry of our subject for several generations back,as far as lineage can be traced, was one inured tostruggle, but guided by right living. Jacob Case, the great-grandfather, was a life-long farmer of German extraction, who lived inHunterdon county, N. J. He lived in easy cir-cumstances, accumulating considerable prop
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. ailure and he won his victory. The an-cestry of our subject for several generations back,as far as lineage can be traced, was one inured tostruggle, but guided by right living. Jacob Case, the great-grandfather, was a life-long farmer of German extraction, who lived inHunterdon county, N. J. He lived in easy cir-cumstances, accumulating considerable property, butat his death this land descended to the eldest sonunder the old English common law, which ruled inthe Colony of New Jersey before the Revolutionarywar. Jacob Case had six sons and possibly sev-eral daughters, of whom nothing is known. Mar-tin Case, the youngest son, and the grandfather ofour subject, was by occupation a farmer. He wastwice married, and by the one wife left two sons,Isaac and Samuel, and by the other wife, onedaughter, Mary. Samuel Case, the father of our subject, wasborn in 1803. He followed harness making in NewJersey, and in 1837 moved to Stroudsburg. MonroeCo., Penn., where he followed butchering till 1847,. /ef^c
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