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The great-grandson of Hans Nikolaus Eisenhauer was Jacob Eisenhower, a Kansas farmer. Jacob's son, David Jacob Eisenhower (1863–1942), was Dwight D. Eisenhower's father. David Jacob was a college-educated engineer, despite his father having urged him to stay on the family farm.
When David Jacob Eisenhower was born on 23 September 1863, in Elizabethville, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jacob Frederick Eisenhower, was 37 and his mother, Margareta Rebecca Matter, was 38. He married Ida Elizabeth Stover in 1885, in Abilene, Dickinson, Kansas, United States.
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- September 23, 1863
- Abilene, Dickinson County, KS, United States
David Jacob Eisenhower was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one of fourteen children born to Jacob and Rebecca Eisenhower. He came to Dickinson County, Kansas, from Pennsylvania in 1879, when he was about 15 years old. The journey by train took three days and cost $20.05 per person.
Learn about the origins and history of the Eisenhower family, including Dwight D. Eisenhower's paternal ancestor David Jacob Eisenhower. Find tips, resources, and manuscript collections for genealogical research.
Dwight Eisenhower’s parents, David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower, moved their family from Denison, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas, where their forebears had settled in a Mennonite colony.
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"To this homestead divine providence brought David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Stover Eisenhower. They lived in piety and Christian service, brought sons into the world, and taught them the ways of righteousness, of charity to all men and reverence to God."
