Jacob shallus biography
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A Scribe’s Life: A local playwright sets her creative eye on a long-lost ancestor, who played a key role in creating the U.S. Constitution
Eric Jackson as Absalom Jones and Aaron Booth as Jacob Shallus
At a family reunion in 2005, Cindy Rock Dlugolecki learned of a previously unknown relative.
He was Jacob Shallus, who penned the original copy of the U.S. Constitution—on parchment —and was Dlugolecki’s first cousin six times removed.
Among the framers of the Constitution were the famous, including Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton. Shallus, the son of German immigrants who served as an assistant clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly, had a much-lower profile.
A Mechanicsburg playwright, Dlugolecki is casting a spotlight on Shallus and the women connected to him in “The Hand that Holds the Quill,” a dramatic work with music. She based her research on a biography of the scribe by journalist-librarian Arthur Plotnik, who died last y
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Jacob Shallus: The Pennman of the original copy of the United States Constitution
Jacob Shallus, born in Pennsylvania to German immigrant parents, played a historically significant yet largely unsung role in American history as the penman of the original United States Constitution. His life, marked by service to both the state and the nation, led him to be entrusted with the transcription of the document that would become the bedrock of American governance. Despite his essential contribution, Shallus’s name does not appear on the Constitution, and it wasn’t until years later that his role as its transcriber became known.
Jacob Shallus carefully engrossed document is preserved and displayed in the Charters of Freedom Rotunda at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Image: Shallus’s engrossed presentation of the constitution’s preamble
Jacob Shallus was born in Pennsylvania to Valentine Schallus (sometimes spelled Shallus) and Frederica Catherina, both German immi
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Jacob Shallus
American calligrapher (1750–1796)
Jacob Shallus or Shalus (1750–April 18, 1796)[1] was the engrosser or penman of the original kopia of the United States Constitution. The handwritten document that Shallus engrossed fryst vatten on display in the Rotunda of the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.
Early life
[edit]Shallus was the son of German immigrants. His father was an innkeeper named kärlekskort Schallus who immigrated from Palatine distrikt in 1747 and his mother was Frederica Catherina. [2][3][4] His brother Thomas Shallus was a mapmaker.
He was born a year after his father Valentine immigrated to Pennsylvania and was a volunteer in the Revolutionary War. During the Revolutionary War, Shallus fought in Canada after becoming a quartermaster of Pennsylvania's 1st Battalion on January 19, 1776.[2] Shallus also assisted in the outfitting of a privateering vessel, the Retrieve