Jacob Jarvis (1815-1842)

M, #12320, b. January 1815
Father*Philip Jarvis Jr (1785-1866) b. 11 Jun 1786, d. 11 Apr 1866
Mother*Mary Polly Barnett 1789-1855 b. 1789, d. 1855
Biography* Jacob Jarvis (1815-1842) had a biography: Commemorative Biographical Record of Harrison Ohio (Beers 1891, my Evd 1245).
Jacob Jarvis, county surveyor and deputy sheriff of Harrison County, was born in Kirkwood Township, Belmont Co Ohio in January 1815. His father, Philip Jarvis, a native of Baltimore County MD, moved from there, about the year 1811, to Belmont County Ohio where he entered a farm and married Mary Barnett, of Baltimore County MD, who bore him eight children, four of whom are now living, one in Fairview, Guernsey Co Ohio, two in Missouri and one (our subject in Harrison County, Ohio. The mother died in Belmont County in 1855, at the age of sixty-six years, and shortly after that event Philip Jarvis moved to Harrison County, where he died at the residence of his son, Jacob, in 1866, at the age of eighty-one years. The paternal grandfather of our subject, also named Philip, was a native American of German descent, as was also the maternal grandmother, the great-grandparents on both sides having been born in Germany.
Jacob Jarvis, of whom this biographical memoir treats, remained on his father's farm in Belmont County till twenty-eight years of age, during four years of which time he worked as a sawyer in a saw-mill. His education was received in the common schools and at the college at Antrim, Guernsey Co Ohio, where he studied surveying, and then returned to the farm and saw-mill. In 1845 he moved to Moorefield Township, Harrison County, where for four years he worked in summer time on his father-in-law's farm, teaching school in winters. In 1849 he was elected to the office of county surveyor, and in the spring of the following yer he came to Cadiz Township, where he has since made his home, having been eighteen years a resident of the town of Cadiz. Mr Jarvis was married in Harrison County Ohio, October 6, 1842, to Eliza M, daughter of Ezekiel O'Brien, of Moorefield Twonship, Harrison County, and four children have been born to the, viz: Frank, in Tuscarawas County; Mary, Mrs Samuel McConnell; Jennie, Mrs A Quigley, and Eliza A, Mrs John Perry, the three last named being residents of Cadiz.
Mr Jarvis has been surveyor of Harrison County fourteen successive terms of three years each, such is his well-merited popularity; for twenty years he has acceptably filled the position of deputy sheriff, and for thirty almost consecutive years he has been secretary of the Harrison County Agricultural Society. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Cadiz, of the IOOF and the F&AM and in politics was originally a Henry Clay Whig, becoming, subsequently, on the formation of the party, a stanch Republican. He is the author of the only wall map of Harrison County ever published (1862), and has in his possession four large books filled with survey records of the county. Widely known and highly esteemed, Mr Jarvis justly deserves a prominent place in this Commemorative Record. 
Birth*January 1815 He was born in January 1815 at Kirkwood, Belmont Co., Ohio, Date & place from Biographical Record of Harrison Co OH (Evd 1245) & Ohio Valley Genealogies (Evd 1247.) 
Marriage*6 October 1842 He married Eliza Matilda O'Brien-Bryan on 6 October 1842 at Harrison Co., Ohio, Date & place from Biographical Record of Harrison Co OH (Evd 1245) & Ohio Valley Genealogies (Evd 1247). Marr also from IGI. 
Residence*1845  In 1845 Jacob Jarvis (1815-1842) resided Moved to Harrison Co Ohio. 
Deed*  At Harrison Co., Ohio: not yet looked up - Book O pg 300. 
Census1850*1850 He appeared on the 1850 census as the head of household, pg 374 #672-688, Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, along with Eliza Matilda O'Brien-Bryan, Mary A Jarvis, Eliza A Jarvis and Franklin B Jarvis . His info on the census included Jarvis, Jacob b.35 OH lawyer.


 
Census1860*1860 Jacob Jarvis (1815-1842) appeared on the 1860 census as the head of household, pg 24 #354-348, Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, along with Eliza Matilda O'Brien-Bryan, Eliza A Jarvis, Mary A Jarvis, Jane Jarvis and Franklin B Jarvis . His info on the census included Jarvis, Jacob 48 b.OH County Surveyor. 
Relationships2nd great-granduncle of David Lee Bassett
Granduncle of Charles Henry "Charlie" Bassett

Family

Eliza Matilda O'Brien-Bryan b. 1814
Marriage*6 October 1842 Jacob Jarvis (1815-1842) married Eliza Matilda O'Brien-Bryan on 6 October 1842 at Harrison Co., Ohio, Date & place from Biographical Record of Harrison Co OH (Evd 1245) & Ohio Valley Genealogies (Evd 1247). Marr also from IGI. 
Children
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