History of Beaver Springs, Penn'a and cenntennial souvenir book . tlm^ii nf the amiut. JACOB DREE5E. Mr. Drecse was born February 23, 1801, anddied Tcbruary 5. 1X()0, aged 88 years, 11 months township. The old man frequently expressed himself in his later years of the dear scenes of his childhood, which were stamped indelibly up- and 12 days. Catherinehi., wife (nee Hoffman) ^^ memory. He told of three houses at this place, two on the main road and one on the hillwhere Old Adam l-Jager lived. The writer ques-tioned him concerning: the large spring (Haines)to which he replied: 1 have not known
History of Beaver Springs, Penn'a and cenntennial souvenir book . tlm^ii nf the amiut. JACOB DREE5E. Mr. Drecse was born February 23, 1801, anddied Tcbruary 5. 1X()0, aged 88 years, 11 months township. The old man frequently expressed himself in his later years of the dear scenes of his childhood, which were stamped indelibly up- and 12 days. Catherinehi., wife (nee Hoffman) ^^ memory. He told of three houses at this place, two on the main road and one on the hillwhere Old Adam l-Jager lived. The writer ques-tioned him concerning: the large spring (Haines)to which he replied: 1 have not known of anyparticular spring there, but it was a desolate,swampy and marsh> place, covered with forestand hea\y undergrowth. He was married toSusanna, daughter of Henry Ooss, who was ofHnglish descent and emigrated from New Jerseyat an early date and cut a road through the forestsouth westward all the way from Troxelville towithin about 150 yards south of where the build-ings stand on the resident farm of Omanuel , a distance of six miles, where he erected. died I-ebruary 0, 1881, aged 71 years, 9 monthsand U) days. The family consisted of five boysand three girls, viz : Wm. H., Ed., Irvin, Wil-son, rtphraim, Sarah, Hlizabeth and Mary.[Ilizabelh died at the age of two years; Irvin waskilled by the kick of a horse, and Sarah died inthe state of Indiana. Mr. Dreese was born amile north of Beaver Springe and learned theblacksmith trade at Middleburg with James Bar-bin, which occupation he followed for some fortyyears at Adamsburg, now Beaver Springs. JOHN SNOOK. Mr. Snook was one of the pioneer settlers ofthe town. He was a son of .lohn Snook whowas born Januar>- 2, 1770; and died October 26,1864. The subject of this sketch was born April26, 1807, in a little log cabin beside the smallstream at or near the present site of the cream-ery in this town, when the town was but one yearold. and died August 21, 1898. He was buried inthe St. Johns (Ridge) cemetery, We^t Beaver
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