From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page 837

REV. JACOB POST, D.D., Pastor of Perseverance Presbyterian Church, was born at Amsterdam, Holland, April 28, 1823.  His classical education was at Leyden University, in Holland.  He spent several years in mercantile business in Holland; came to the United States in the Spring of 1854, and immediately entered the Theological Seminary at Auburn, N.Y., from which he graduated in 1857; was ordained for the ministry in 1858, at Manlius, N.Y., where he preached nearly three years.  Mr. POST was afterward nine years at Oswego, N.Y. In the Spring of 1869, he was called to the pastorate of his present charge, then known as the First Holland Presbyterian Church.  Since that date, he has been five years pastor of the Noble Street Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Ill., but in the Spring of 1878, he as re-called to this church, which is still the scene of his labors.  The name of the church has been changed, on his return, to "Perseverance Presbyterian."  He was married in Holland, in 1846, to Miss Henrietta COSYN, daughter of an iron merchant in Gouda, Holland.  They have ten children - six living.  His eldest daughter, Hermina, is the wife of John A. CHAPMAN, a printer in Milwaukee; and Jeanette is wife of Rev. John CURRER, Pastor of Presbyterian Church in Hebron, Ill.  Mr. POST is broadly humanitarian, yet strictly orthodox, in his views. Although a foreigner, and preaching weekly in two or more languages, he is, nevertheless, a patriotic American.  Residence, 655 Sixteenth street.

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