Jacob Burr
Jacob Burr, farmer, of West Union, was born February 6, 1856, on the old Burr homestead near Cedar Mills in Jefferson Township. He is a son of Frederick Burr and Caroline Bieber. Frederick Burr was a native of Alsace-Lorraine, France, and was born in 1816. He emigrated to Pennsylvania when a young man, where he married Caroline Bieber, a native of Germany. In 1850, he came to Adams County and settled on the farm above mentioned, where he reared a family of six sons and one daughter. Jacob, the subject of this sketch, married Jennie M. Piatt, daughter of James Piatt, of near the Stone Chapel, in Tiffin Township. One son, Stanley, was born to them. After her death, he married Mrs. Lizzie McKenzie, widow of Peter McKenzie and daughter of John Crummie and Hannah Collier, his wife, of Cedar Mills. Peter McKenzie was killed in West Union by his horse running away with him. He left four interesting children: Susie, a bright and talented Miss of fifteen years; Henry D., twelve years; Mary E., nine, and Frank P., six. Peter McKenzie was a son of Peter McKenzie, Sr., who married Susan Bayless, and whose father was Duncan McKenzie, a native of Scotland and a pioneer of Adams County contemporaneous with Massie, Donalson and Leedom. He married Jane Ellison, a daughter of John Ellison, Sr. He died on the farm selected by him as his future home while the Indians yet laid claim to the country on September 19, 1832, in his seventy-eighth year. His wife died February 10, 1855, in her eighty-third year. Their son, Peter McKenzie, was born January 14, 1811. and died May 4, 1881. Susan, his wife, was born January 11, 1815, and died in July, 1895. Peter McKenzie, son of Peter McKenzie, Sr., was born August 16, 1849, an^ died December 31, 1896.
The subject of this sketch, Jacob Burr, is a prominent farmer and stock raiser. He resided on the old Duncan McKenzie farm. He is a member of the Independent Order of Red Men, of West Union.
From History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900