Home of Jacob Fetter 74 Center Street

Jacob Fetter’s business was to the left of his home at 78 Center Street. He lived here with his wife Jane (Gossler) and sons William and James Herbert.

From Bell’s History of Northumberland County 1891: JACOB FETTER, lumber dealer and proprietor of a planing mill, was born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1836, son of Samuel and Mary (Wise) Fetter, natives of Cumberland county, this State. He was reared in Sunbury and received a common school education. He learned the carpenter trade, which he followed from 1854 to 1880, when he removed to Milton and, in 1881 established his present business. In 1860 he was married to Jane Ann Gossler, daughter of Samuel Gossler, of Sunbury. To this union were born two children: William G., who married, October 20, 1887, Margaret B. Kremer, a daughter of Daniel Kremer, of Philadelphia, and James Herbert; both of the sons are engaged in business with their father. In 1865 he went out as a corporal of the Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers. He is a member of Sunbury Lodge, No. 22, F. & A.M., is a Republican, served nine years as school director of Sunbury, and with his family belongs to the Lutheran church of Milton.