Jacob Schreiber, son of Philip Jacob, was born in Whitehall, Jan. 3. 1780. When a boy, he, by an accident, lost the use of one of his eyes. After the death of his father, he became possessed of the homestead and half of the land, plus five acres, as that part of the farm was more hilly than the other part. As was customary, his older brother, Peter, should have received the homestead, but Jacob's choice of a helpmate with whom the father wished to make his home met his father's approval and he was favored. A release from his co-heirs shows that he paid £220 to each as their portion. Not being of robust health, he was obliged to lease much of the labor of the farm to others and later to his sons. He was a great lover of horses, and had quite a reputation as a horse doctor, being frequently called upon to relieve or cure animals in his own and adjoining townships. He also bought horses and took them to the New York markets. He opened up limestone quarries in the earlier days of iron manufacture and sold limestone to furnaces of the Lehigh Valley, transporting it by canal boats, and later by rail.

He was a strict disciplinarian and apt at times to be severe. After he became sixty years of age he became blind and remained so until his death. In the later years of his life he and his wife were fond of recalling old friends and relating incidents of the past. His abstemious way of living preserved him in fairly good health to his eighty-sixth year, and he died on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1865. He married Eve Catharine Leisenring, daughter of Conrad Leisenring and his wife, Catharine Grob. She was born Oct. 3. 1786, and died May 31, 1866. They are buried at Egypt. Mrs. Schreiber was possessed to an unusual degree of good judgment and common sense and was considered as a court of last resort by her family. She was a good house-keeper and skilled in the administration of the old household remedies. They had eight children.