Jesse Slaybaugh

"JESSE SLAYBAUGH, farmer, P.O. Manallen, was born in Butler (then Menallen) Township, this county, in 1825, and is a son of Peter and Mary (Peter) Slaybaugh, natives of Adams County, who had a family of four children: Jesse, Henry, Maria and Elizabeth. Peter Slaybaugh was a weaver by trade, which he followed while he lived, and died in 1828. He was an exemplary member of the Lutheran Church. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Slaybaugh married Jacob Weidner, by whom she had two children: Mary C. and Anna R. She died in 1876, aged seventy-eight years. Mr. Weidner died in 1868. He and his wife were members of the Reformed Church. Peter Slaybaugh’s father, Peter S., and Rebecca (Guise), his wife, removed to this county in its early settlement, and here lived and died. Their children were Jacob, Peter, David, Daniel, Nicholas, Abraham and Susanna, all deceased but Nicholas. The wife of Peter Slaybaugh, Jr., was a daughter of Henry and ------(Schnar) Peter. Jesse, our subject, lived, from after three years of age, at home until attaining his majority and in youth learned the blacksmith’s trade. He established himself in a shop at Lower’s Mill, and carried on his business nine years. In 1855 he purchased 114 acres of land, on which he settled, and where he now resides. He began life a poor boy with little or no means, but by hard work and genuine pluck has acquired a large property. To Mr. and Mrs. Slaybaugh have been born four children: Elizabeth A., Henry P., Howard J. and Barbara E. The entire family are members of the United Brethren Church. Politically Mr. Slaybaugh is liberal and votes for whom he thinks is the best man. He resides in the house built by Henry Slaybaugh in 1814."