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JACOB WHEELER PAUL, manufacturer post office Hulton, is the fourth child of Jacob and Mary (Wheeler) Paul, and was born at Germantown, Pa., in 1829. Jacob Wheeler, his maternal grandfather, was a native of Switzerland, who settled near Philadelphia. The Paul family is probably of Franco-German origin, but dates back for several generations in this country. Jacob Paul died in 1834, and next year his widow came with her children to Pittsburgh. Their present places of residence are as follows: Susan (McCandless), Verona; Thaddeus W., Colorado, and Rachel (Pears), Pittsburgh. J. W. Paul had little opportunity for education, and began life early as steward’s boy on an Ohio river steamboat. By steady advances he had become captain of a steamer when he left the river, at the age of twenty-two. For twenty-one years he engaged in the manufacture of glass in Birmingham and in 1873 established the manufacture of steel railroad-tools at Verona, and became a resident here. The business has been successful and he now employs 125 people the goods finding market in Africa and South America, as well as throughout our country and Canada. Mr. Paul is an active member of the P. E. Church, being one of its standing committee, and has always been a republican. In 1850 he married his cousin, Miss Susan, daughter of Adam and Ann (Wheeler) Fries, born near Philadelphia, in 1830. Their living children are Henry S., Mary (Mrs. H W. Armstrong), Jane (Mrs. Charles Baker), Ann (wife of Ethalbert Nevin) Ellen and Edwin. Adam, the first born, died at the age of twenty-one.