Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2026 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== USGenNet Data Repository Notice: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ============================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ============================================================================= History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania Edited by A. J. Davis Pub. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, N.Y. - 1887 [p. 644-645] EAKER, PHILIP K., was born in Northampton county, Pa., June 11, 1831. When five years of age he was brought by his grand- parents to what is now Clarion county, and soon after was bound out to PHILIP KRATZER, who lived near Rimbersburg, Pa. After serving as bound boy for seven years, he lived three years with his mother, who had, in the mean time, beem unfortuante in marry- ing a man of intemperate habits. Owing to these circumstances, the boy's opportunity of an early education was limited to four months in the common schools. After leaving his step-father, he followed chopping cord-word, and driving team until 1849, when he engaged in mining ore for C. MYERS, at Polk Furnace. In 1852 he went to Warren county and worked in the lumber woods for a short time. He then came back to Polk Furnace and engaged with J. N. HETHRINGTON, at that time owner and manager of the furnace. In 1854 MR. EAKER left this place with five hundred dollars in money, and purchased a yoke of cattle, a wood sled, and a tract of wildcat land on the east bank of the Allegheny River, near where Oil City is now. While here he was engaged in clear- ing his farm and rafting on the river until 1857. About this time his step-father died, leaving his mother a poor and help- less widow. PHILIP then erected buildings on his property, moved his mother there and tenderly cared for her until her death in 1863. He married MARY E. SAGAR, of Venango county, Pa., January 4, 1859. They have since had eleven children, only seven of whom are living at present. MR. EAKER'S wildcat farm proved to be oil territory. He afterwards sold it as such and bought, for $14,500, the pro- perty known as the JAMES SLOAN farm in Limestone township, where he is living at present. He moved on this farm in March, 1865, and has since bought in that vicinity three other farms, amounting to about seven hundred acres in all, and also has purchased considerable property in New Bethlehem. He united with the Salem Reformed Church in 1866, and has ever since been one of its most liberal supporters. He has also contributed liberally to the building of other churches, bot at home and abroad, and to home and foreign missions. He has always been good to the poor, and was never known to turn the hungry from his door without something to eat. He is an excellent farmer, and takes an active interest in raising fine stock. He has a choice outfit of the latest and most improved farm implements, and has cultivated his orchard and planted trees in his yard until he has an abundance of elegant fruit and a beautiful home. ===============================================================================