The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 907 JACOB H. ELKINTON. Jacob H. Elkinton is a successful mining man and rancher living near Sunnyside. His experiences of life have been broad and varied, covering several years' sojourn in Alaska. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a son of Charles and Emma (Fisler) Elkinton, who were also natives of the Keystone state. The paternal grandfather was George Elkinton, a son of Thomas Elkinton, a native of England, who in 1688 crossed the Atlantic to Burlington, New Jersey. All were members of the Society of Friends or Quakers. Charles Elkinton, father of Jacob H. Elkinton, became trustee of a large estate in Philadelphia, having over two thousand houses under his supervision to look after, collect the rent and do everything necessary in the care of the property. He continued a resident of Philadelphia to the time of his demise, which occurred in 1914. His wife was a daughter of Jacob Fisler, who was born in Philadelphia in 1787 and married a Miss Saul, a native of Holland, who became a resident of Philadelphia during the colonial epoch in the history of the country. Jacob Fisler, the maternal grandfather of Jacob H. Elkinton, served with the rank of colonel in the War of 1812, having charge of Fort Mifflin in the vicinity of Philadelphia. His daughter, Mrs. Elkinton, passed away in May, 1913. Both Mr. and Mrs. Elkinton were active and consistent members of the Lutheran church and he gave his political allegiance to the republican party. Their family numbered four children: Edith, now residing in Pasadena, California; Jacob H., of this review; Charles, who resides in Philadelphia; and George, living in Sunnyside, Washington. Jacob H. Elkinton acquired a public school education in his native city, where he remained until 1888, when he went to California. In 1898 he went to Alaska, where he was identified with mining interests until 1906. During that period he spent a few winters in California, where he pursued a course in mining engineering at the Van der Naillen School of Engineering of San Francisco. With the opening of spring, however, he would return to the far north and he developed some fine mines near Council, Alaska, one hundred miles southeast of Nome. He disposed of his interests in Alaska in 1906, however, and came to Sunnyside, Washington, where he purchased forty acres two miles northeast of the town. He planted this all to apples but has taken out twenty acres of it, having, however, twenty acres still devoted to the cultivation of fruit. The remainder of his land is planted to hay and diversified crops and from his property he derives a substantial annual income. Mr. Elkinton votes with the republican party and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. Fraternally he is a Mason who exemplifies in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. He also has membership with the Sour Doughs, an organization formed of men who had previously resided in Alaska. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.