. Contemporary American biography . born September 14th, 1798, and died August 26th, 1860. His death occurred on the farmwhich his father had purchased for him about the time of his marriage and upon which all hissurviving children were born. Jacob Eastburn was a member of Solebury Meeting and wasnoted for his generous disposition, his kindly manners, and his unassuming and unostentatiousnature. His beneficent influence was often felt in the community in which he lived, and hedied regretted by a large circle of mourning friends. His wife was Elizabeth Kirkbride Taylor,to whom he was married in
. Contemporary American biography . born September 14th, 1798, and died August 26th, 1860. His death occurred on the farmwhich his father had purchased for him about the time of his marriage and upon which all hissurviving children were born. Jacob Eastburn was a member of Solebury Meeting and wasnoted for his generous disposition, his kindly manners, and his unassuming and unostentatiousnature. His beneficent influence was often felt in the community in which he lived, and hedied regretted by a large circle of mourning friends. His wife was Elizabeth Kirkbride Taylor,to whom he was married in 1829, and who was great-great-granddaughter of John Sotcher,heretofore mentioned. She was a woman of remarkable energy and executive ability and wasa prominent official in the Friends Meetings, serving as chief officer in some meetings almostcontinuously, and notable for the skill and judgment by which she conducted her official busi-ness, having been chief clerk at some period of her life of the whole series of Friends Meetings,.
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