Jacob Burger was born in the village of Kuhr, in the province of Hessen, Germany, July 25, 1831 , only son in a family of four children. He lived at home until he was twenty-three years of age, when he had an elder sister came to the United States, landing at the port of New York on July 17, 1854, without means and strangers in a strange land. Jacob Burger had but five cents in money when he landed on the shores of America, but he soon got a job as a gardener in New York, where he worked until he had earned money enough to pay his way to Cincinnati, in the neighborhood of which city he worked, gardening and farming, for nearly two years, or until the last of April, 1856, when he came up into Indiana and located at Connersville, securing employment in that vicinity as a farm hand. He married in 1857 and in 1860 went up into Wayne county, where he remained until 1869, when he returned to this county and bought a farm west of Connersville, the place now occupied by his sons, Louis and John, and there spent the remainder of his life, a substantial farmer, he and his wife both doing well their part in the upbuilding of that community. On May 7, 1857, in this county, Jacob Burger was united in marriage to Veronica Fager, who was born in the grand duchy of Baden, in Germany, August 20, 1829, and who came to this country alone in 1853. After more than forty years of happy married life, she died on July 19, 1898. Jacob Burger survived his wife for nearly twelve years, his death occurring on March 12, 1910. He and his wife were earnest members of the Catholic church and their children w-ere reared in that faith, these children besides the subject of this sketch, being Mrs. Anna Geise, Mrs. Clara Schoenborn, Mrs. Maggie Ariens, Joseph S. (who died in October, 1908), Mrs. Lizzie Greiner and Louis.
"History of Fayette Counties, Indiana"
published by B. F. Bowen & Co. Indianapolis, IN 1917