NATHAN & WOOLSTENHOLME, dealers in general merchandise, Lancaster, commenced business in the fall of 1869, with a $2,000 stock and small capital of about $1,500, doing a trade the first year of about $2,500; their business has since increased threefold.
     Jacob Woolstenholme, Lancaster, a native of Philadelphia, Penn., where he was born May 27, 1838. His father came to Grant Co. in 1843, and still resides there; his brother John died Aug. 20, 1880, in Lancaster, leaving a wife and four children.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.