Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. Wiliam 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

JACOB LEBNECHER, farmer; P. O. Beardstown; was born in 
Bavaria, Germany, June 22, 1836; son of Jacob and Margaret 
(Kohlman) Lebknecher, natives of Germany; he, a farmer by 
occupation, born in 1812, died Dec. 17, 1838; she, born in 
1808, died March 13, 1859; parents of four children.  Jacob 
received his education in Germany, where he attended school 
seven years, and began the business of life as a cigar-
maker in Philadelphia, Pa.  He afterward worked for 
fourteen months in a wholesale tea and coffee house in New 
York city; then engaged in the brewery business in Peoria, 
Ill., and was afterward engaged in the same business in 
Beardstown, this county, thirteen years.  He has followed 
farming in this county eight years.  He was married in New 
York city, Nov. 12, 1859, to Kathrina Burkheiser, a native 
of Germany, born April 4, 1839, daughter of Karl and Mary 
A. Burkheiser.  They have nine children: Anna M., Frank J., 
Charles, Jacob, Lena (deceased), Emma (deceased), William, 
Katie, and Tillie.  He is a Democrat, and a member of Lodge 
No. 57, A.O.U.W., in Beardstown.

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