Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

In the death of Jacob Bayha, which
occurred at the family residence at
1157-1161 Market street. at a. m.
Tuesday, January S1st, is removed one
of the oldest and best known citizens
of Wheeling. For 6a( years-the aver
age life of two generations-his ia
miliar figure and stern but kindly
countenance has been a wonted pres
ence in the city's marts of trade and
industry, in. which his active business
facilities found ample and constant
employment.
Deceased was born April 18th, 1918,
at Plieningen, in the then Kingdom of
Wurtenberg, Germany, and emigrated
to this country with his parents in
1882. After stopping for little less
than two years in New York the fam
lily came west, travelling by the prima-
tive modes in vogue at that day. The
trip up the Hudson to Albany was
made by steamboat and from thence
to Buffalo via the Erie Canal. The
emigrants journeyed the remainder of
the way to Cleveland in a lake vessel,
and came on the Ohio canal to Canal
Dover, O., and thence to Wheeling in
the old fashioned stage coach. The
senior Bayha was a baker by trade,
and he first settled in small house
at Jonathan's Ravine, in the North
End, which was then we'll out in the
suburbs. Jacob, the third son, was
then lad of sixteen, and the sturdy
youth at once found employment with
a relative who was in the butcher bust
ness. He afterwards worked for Geo.
Baird, father of the late DR.. Geo. B.
Baird, who kept grocery on Market
square, and went with that gentleman
to Washington, Pa, when he removed
his business there in the early forties.
In 1916 Jacob Bayha had by his indus
try and frugality accumulated suffic-
lent funds to enable him to form a
partnership with his brother Gottleib,
and together they established bak-
cry on the present site of the Pollack
tobacco works on Water street. In
1852 he purchased the lot at 1157-1161
Market street, and placed upon it the
building which still stands. A dissO-
luton of partnership took place in
1870, when our subject embarked in
the bakery business, from which he
has been retired for about fifteen
years. For years he was an active
member of the old Hope volunteer fire
company.
In 1S47 deceased was married to Miss
Catharine Lauterbach, at Washington,
Pa, who preceded him to the other
shore sixteen years the coming Septem-
Der. They had born to them eight
children, four of whom survive. They
are George W., the we'll know teller of
the Germania Half Dollar Savings
Bank, H. c., with Jones & Bros, of
Twelfth street, and Misses Annie V.
and Katie R., who reside at home.
Of the seven brothers and sisters of
deceased there are living Gotlieb and
John, we'll known Wheeling business
men, and Mrs. Anna B. Dittmaf, whose
home is corner York and Indiana
streets, Island.
The subject of this sketch, if he had
lived until the 18th day of next April
would have passed his 81st year. His
last illness was brief, of but one weeks
duration, although he had not been
robust for year past. He had during
his long and useful career seen the city
of Wheeling grow from a provincial
village to its present proportions, and
his keen business enterprise and
Astounding optomism was much graf
flied by the progress he had witnessed.
He was a lifelong and consistent
member of st. James German Lutheran
Church, from which place the funeral
will take place to-day at p. m. In
terment will be at Peninsula cemetery.