Clay Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties-Jacob Eilers
Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1890
JACOB EILERS is the owner and occupant
of a very pleasant farm residence in Clay
County, the same being located on section
29, Bloom Township, and well improved
and thoroughly cultivated. This estate was entered
as a homestead by Mr. Eilers in 1875, his final
proof being made in 1880, and he having since the
date of his arrival here been industriously laboring
to bring it to a high state of perfection. He was
reared to the occupation of a farmer, and is well
qualified to produce good results in rural life.
The lineage from which Mr. Eilers sprang is an
ancient and honored one, both parents belonging to
old families of the Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany.
There they were born, married, and lived for many
years, the father dying there in 1870, at the age of
forty-six years. He bore the same name as his
son, of whom we write, and his occupation was
that of farming. He proved successful in his
financial life-work, and in gaining the esteem of his
neighbors. He was a Lutheran, as is his widow,
formerly Miss Anna Taddiken, who is now living
in this township, having come to America in 1882.
She is now fifty-seven years old, and vigorous and
capable.
He who is the subject of this sketch was born at
the ancestral home near the North Sea, Aug. 22,
1854, and received the excellent education provided
for her sons and daughters by the German Empire.
He was not yet of age when he left his native land
for a home in the New World, coming to the
United States in 1871. Landing in the American
metropolis, he remained in that city eight months,
leaving it for a home in Jackson County, Mich.
He came to this State and county in the fall of
1874, and soon after began his labors in the agricultural
district of which he is now an honored
resident.
The great step of Mr. Eilers' life was taken when
he became the husband of Miss Helen O'Hara, that
happy event having taken place in this township
on the 28th of May, 1883. The lady who bears
his name was born in the Empire State in 1863,
and at the age of eight became a resident of this
State, to which her parents had removed. She had
been carefully reared by her estimable parents,
and well educated, not only in the knowledge to be
found in books, but in the essential virtues of true
womanhood. She is the mother of four children
�George C., Jacob, John, and Anna, all now at
home.
Patrick and Roxie (Card) O'Hara, the parents of
Mrs. Eilers, are now living in this township, on a
large farm which they own. They came to this
State from Iowa, where they had gone from New
York. The father is of Irish descent, and the
mother of German ancestry.
Mr. Eilers belongs to the Union Labor party,
and is an earnest adherent of the principles of that
political body. He and his wife attend the various
churches of the vicinity, not yet having identified
themselves with any body of Christian believers.
They are people of social natures and hospitable
dispositions, and interested in whatever will accrue
to the prosperity of the community and its greater
enjoyment.