AMBROSE F. PETERS, treasurer of the Peters & Jacoby Company, and a prominent church and Sunday school worker of Allentown, was born near Kernsville, Nov. 14, 1863, son of the late Lewis P. and Amanda (Knerr) Peters. He attended the local schools and the Allentown Business College. In 1877 he became associated with his father in the manufacture of ice cream; also in the baking and catering business, which he has followed up to the present time with marked success. The firm of Peters & Jacoby Company conducts along modem lines the finest eating establishment in Allentown. Mr. Peters is a member of the following organizations: Barger Lodge, No. 3331 F. & A. M.; Alien Council No. 23; Alien Chapter, No. 203; Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S, of Reading; and Lehigh Lodge, No. 83, I. O. O. F., of Allentown. On Oct. 18, 1888, Mr. Peters married Helena Miller Pavey, a daughter of Rev. Charles and Helena (Miller) Pavey, an Englishman by birth, and a minister of the Baptist Church, who resided at Chalfonte, Bucks county. at the time of his death.