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JACOB L. FELTY. Early in the eighteenth century the Felty family came from Germany and settled near Codorus, in York county. Pa. The grandfather of Jacob Felty, John Felty, followed the occupation of a farmer, and lived to be over seventy years of age. The maternal grandfather was Peter Lefevre, an old settler of York county, of German descent. He and his wife Barbara lived to an old age, and are buried in Fairview township, York Co., Pennsylvania.

John Felty, father of Jacob, was born in Codorus township, York county, and was a millwright by occupation. His death occurred in 1873, when he was fifty-five years of age. He was the father of the following children: (1) William married Mary Fink, now deceased, and lives in York county, where he follows farming; he has a family of five boys. (2) Barbara, deceased, married Jacob Podimore, who is now living in York county, with his only child. (3) Levi is deceased. (4) John married Mary Donaldson, and moved to Minnesota, where he is a farmer, and has five children. (5) Mary married John Kimmel, deceased, and lives in Riverton, the mother of five children. (6) Anna married Henry Seipe, a farmer, and they live in Conewago township, York county. (7) Leah married George Hood, and lives in Steelton, Dauphin county, where Mr. Hood is in the iron business; they have three children. (8) Jacob L. is our subject.

Jacob L. Felty was born in Conewago township, York county, in 1849, and received his education in his native township, after which at the age of seventeen, he went to Dauphin county, where he learned the carpenter’s trade. This he followed for a period of nine years, and at the end of that time removed to Cumberland county, and engaged in farming. For some years he worked on a farm belonging to George Upp, his father-in-law, later purchasing this farm, containing forty-eight acres, on which he now resides. He has been successful in his work, and his pleasant, genial manner has made him many friends, with whom he is very popular. In politics, Mr. Felty has always been a strong Democrat, while in religious matters he and his family are members of the Lutheran Church.

In 1875 Mr. Felty was united in marriage with Leah Upp, and their children are: Henry, a successful farmer in Barnes county, N. Dak.; Ida, living at home; Gertrude, at home; Mervin E., a graduate of the Shippensburg State Normal School, who is a school teacher, and who is now finishing his third term, having taught the first two years in Kohlertown (his home school), plainly showing his success as a teacher, but desiring a change, he thought wise to accept the Allen “Dale School,” in the same township.