Jacob S. Eggborn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1824
Place of Birth: Culpeper County, Virginia, United States
Date of Death: 05-Jan-1906
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Jacob S. Eggborn
- Jacob Samuel Eggborn (December 29, 1824 – January 5, 1906) was a farmer, sheriff and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing Culpeper County in the Virginia General Assembly for one two-year term that began in December 1881.He was born in 1824 to George Eggborn (1796-1848) and his wife Amy Ann McQueen (1801-1835), who had moved to that area of Culpeper County two years earlier.
- His elder brother Perry J.
- Eggborn had held the same General Assembly seat for two terms before the American Civil War.
- They also had sisters Elizabeth Frances Eggborn (1821-1899), Amanda (b.
- 1825), Martha Ann Eggborn Perry (1819-1887) and Lucy (1829-1852)). Jacob Samuel Eggborn was the Culpeper County sheriff by 1860,and had real estate worth about $9000 and an equal amount of personal property.
- On December 11, 1884, the 59 year old farmer married 27 year old Ida Burgess in Culpeper, and they had a son George (1886-after 1928) and another child Arney (1893-).Due to Eggborn's strong support of Republican Rutherford B.
- Hayes (who won the Presidential election of 1876, defeating Democrat Samuel Tilden), a post office was established called Eggbornsville, Virginia on August 22, 1877 at the Eggborn Brothers store.
- To demonstrate bipartisan spirit, the first postmaster was William F.
- Kyle.
- Brothers Jacob A.
- ("Army") Eggborn and Edward J.
- Eggborn took over the postmastership in 1885 (during the Democratic administration of Grover Cleveland) and William H.
- Eggborn succeeded them in 1900.
- That post office closed in 1915, but the store continued operating until 1934.
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