Jacob Mayens is the enterprising proprietor of a grocery situated on East High Street, in the limits of Jefferson City, where he established his business in 1885. He carries a full line of groceries and makes a specialty of country produce of all kinds, supplying a large patronage. He is an old resident of Cole County, having first located in the county in 1854 with his parents, who were natives of Belgium, and came to America when our subject was but eleven years of age. The latter was reared on a farm in Cole County, and at the age of twenty-five left his home and accepted a position in the depot at Osage City. This was in the year 1859, and he made his home in Osage City for the following twenty-five years, seventeen years of that time being engaged in the mercantile business. In 1873 he removed to Jefferson City, where he later established his present business and has ever since lived. Mr. Mayens married in 1861, Margaret De Cotes, a native of Prussia, and their union has been blessed with two children, both at home, Peter and Emma. Mr. Mayens is a member of the Catholic Church and his wife of the Lutheran. He served in the Home Guards during the late war.

Transcribed from:
History of Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton, Miller, Maries, and Osage Counties, Missouri, Goodspeed Publishing Company (1889).