REV. JACOB GEORGE RUPP, oldest son of Benjamin born Oct. 14, 1869, is married to Mary Ida, daughter of Stephan Bachman, and was the last one of the Rupp family born in the old homestead where the ancestor of the Rupps settled and where the Rnpps lived for six successive generations. In his boyhood days he attended the public school at Kuhnsville, Lehigh county, and after his father moved to Upper Milford, he attended the Emaus high school and taught public school for three years in Upper Milford township. His college preparatory course was taken in the preparatory department of Mublenberg College and in 1889 he matriculated at Franklin and Marshall from which institution he was graduated in 18931 and from the Eastern Theological Seminary at Lancaster, in the spring of 1896. He was ordained to the holy ministry and installed June 10, 1896, as pastor of Towamensing charge, Carbon county. Pa., which he served two years. On Aug. 1. 1898, he became the pastor of Grace Reformed church, Northampton, Pa. This congregation, being newly organized, he served it as its first pastor, until it became a strong and influential church. During this time he was also stated clerk of East Pennsylvania Classis, from 1900 to 1911, and frequently represented it in the higher judicatory bodies of the church. While pastor at Northampton he was always deeply interested in the welfare of the community. When the borough was created he was one of the prime promoters, to keep the town and its industries intact, raising the money and helped to secure the signers, who defended their rights in the local and superior courts forming Northampton as it is now constituted. On Dec. 1, 1910, he became the field secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church, and resigned his pastorate at Northampton. In this capacity he is serving the most aggressive branch of the Church's life and work and is constantly thrown into contact with the leaders of the Church in the various synods and classes throughout the different states for counsel and the presentation of the great foreign mission cause, which he so ably represents.