"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, 
Adams  and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical
Publishing  Company, Publishers, 1904. pp. 852-853.

JACOB ROSENOFF was born in Walcow, Russia, February 25, 1869. He was the son of
Fred and Katherine (Achziger) Rosenoff and a brother of Henry and John F.
Rosenoff, whose lives are sketched elsewhere in this volume. The family remained
together and passed through identical experiences and changes until coming to
this state, all of which is chronicled in the biography of Henry Rosenoff and
which is unnecessary to repeat here.
     Jacob Rosenoff was a lad of eight years when his family came to America. He
has always lived on the frontier and in consequence has been deprived of all but
a meagre common school education. At the age of twenty-four he launched out upon
an independent career. He first took a homestead and engaged in farming and
stock raising. Having very modest means to begin life with, he experienced his
share of the hardships and deprivations of life, but having always enjoyed good
health and being possessed of an indomitable will to succeed, coupled with never
failing ambition, he has accomplished the realization of his desire to own a
home and sufficient amount of the goods of this world to keep him in ease the
remainder of his life. Soon after coming to Adams county he and his brother
Henry went to work on the ranch of Pete Meyer, in Lincoln county, where they
remained five years. Returning to Adams county he took a homestead fifteen miles
southwest of Ritzville, which, after maki!
ng final proof he sold, and with the proceeds and what he had accumulated
meantime, he purchased four hundred acres of land where he now lives, three
miles west of Ritzville. He has his farm well improved and in a high state of
cultivation, with good house, orchard and out-of-door improvements. He also
keeps a large herd of live stock.
     Jacob Rosenoff was married on November 21, 1894, to Lizzie Bets, daughter
of Henry and Katherine (Thaut) Bets, natives of Russia. The parents of Mrs.
Rosenoff came to Lincoln county, Nebraska, in 1887, lived there six years, then
removed to Franklin county, where they are now living on a farm. They are
parents of six children, Fred, Henry, Lizzie, Mrs. Katie Koch, John and Jacob.
     The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Rosenoff has been blessed with three children,
Martha, Joseph and Theodore.
     Mr. Rosenoff is a Republican in politics and a member of the Congregational
church.


Submitted by: Georgia Harter Williams, georgiahw@earthlink.net