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Born 1840
From Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens (1908), History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881), A portrait and biographical record of Portage and Summit counties, Ohio (1898)
DR. W. C. JACOBS, 605 High street, Akron, is a native of Lima, Ohio, where he was born Feb. 26, 1840. His parents, T. K. and Ann (Elder) Jacobs, were natives of Juniata Co., Penn., whence they came, in 1836, to Ashland, moving two years later to Ijima, where they have since lived. His father was a tailor by trade, though turning his attention to farming in the new country, and was one of the early pioneers of the latter place. Dr. Jacobs, the fourth in a family of nine children, spent his early years on the farm and in the village until the age of 16. when he received an appointment to the National Naval School at Annapolis, Md. He resigned in 1859, and began the study of medicine in Cincinnati with Dr. William Carson, graduating in 1862, at the Ohio Medical College in that city. In April, 1862, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the 4th 0. V. C, and served with the regiment until December, 1862, when he was promoted to the position of Surgeon and assigned to the 81st 0. V. I., with which he served until the end of the war. During the Atlanta campaign, he served on the Operating Board of the Second Division, Sixteenth Army Corps. October, 1865, he came to Akron, where he has since practiced his profession. He is a member of the Summit County Medical Societv, of the Union Medical Society of Northeastern Ohio, of the State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association. Of the second named society Dr. Jacobs was the first Secretary, and has held offices in other of the societies. September 10, 1863, he married Miss Huldah M. Hill, a native of Knox Co., Ohio. Her father, Luther Hill, was a native of New York, and settled with his parents in Richland Co., Ohio, in 1811. Dr. Jacobs has one child — Herald L.
As printed in History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
ILLIAM CLOYD JACOBS, M. D..
one of the most experienced physicians and surgeons of Akron, Ohio, is a native of the Buckeye state, and was born in Lima, Allen county, February 26, 1840, a son of Thomas K. and Ann (Elder) Jacobs.
William Jacobs, paternal grandfather of the doctor, was a native of eastern Pennsylvania, a son of a Revolutionary soldier, of Welsh descent, and was a horticulturist by vocation. He was married in his native state to Mary Williams, late in life came to Ohio and died in Lima in 1848.
Thomas K. Jacobs, father of the doctor, was born in Pennsylvania January 30, 18 12, there grew to manhood and married Miss Ann Elder. In 1835 he came to Ohio, and for a year worked at his trade of tailor in Ashland. In June, 1836, he settled in Lima, where for about three years he worked at his trade. He rapidly rose to prominence in his new home and in 1840 was elected treasurer of Allen county, and re-elected at intervals until he had served si.\ terms in that office; in 1859 he was elected a member of the state legislature, and was an incumbent of that office until the breaking out of the Civil war. He was an extensive dealer in real estate, and died, a greatly respected citizen, November 12, 1884. His wife, who was a daughter of Noah and Ann (Alexander) Elder, of Pennsylvania, bore him nine children, four of whom grew to mature years, viz: William C, our subject; Matilda, now Mrs. Henry A. Moore; Clara, wife of John Brotherton and Thomas K., a physician of Lima.
Dr. William C. Jacobs attended the public schools in Lima until sixteen years of age, when, in 1856, he was appointed a cadet in the naval academy at Annapolis, Md., but in March, 1859, resigned and returned home for the purpose of studying medicine. After due preparatory study he was admitted to the Ohio Medical college at Cincinnati, from which he graduated March 3, 1862, and on April i, of the same year, was commissioned an acting assistant surgeon in the United States army. He was at once dispatched to Nashville, Tenn., and served in the hospitals in and around that city until July following, when he was temporarily attached to the Twenty-first Kentucky regiment of infantry, was placed in charge of the medical department until August, and was then assigned as assistant surgeon to the
Fourth Ohio cavalry, in which position he served until October i, when he was injured and returned home on leave of absence. While on this leave, he went before the board of medical examiners of the state of Ohio, was re-examined, and was commissioned surgeon of the Eighty-first Ohio volunteer infantry December 23, 1862, thus attaining the rank of surgeon before he was twenty-three years of age. He joined his regiment at Corinth, Miss., January 9, 1863, and served with it under Gen. Sherman in the campaign against Atlanta, in the march to the sea, and in the operations from Savannah, Ga., to Raleigh, N. C, and after the surrender of Lee and Johnson he was mustered out of the service July 21, 1865, at Camp Dennison, Ohio. In October, 1865, he settled in Akron, where he has since been in the active practice of his profession, and now stands not only in its foremost rank, but in point of service is the oldest practitioner in the city.
Dr. Jacobs has twice been married. The first marriage was consummated September 10, 1863, with Miss Huldah M. Hill, daughter of Luther and Maria (Gibbs) Hill, of Piqua, Ohio. This union was blessed with one son, Harold H., who was born February 10, 1866; this young gentleman graduated from Amherst college in 1888, and from the Ohio Medical college in 1891, and is now associated with his father in practice. The second marriage of Dr. Jacobs took place March 6, 1895, to Mrs. Mary H. Wheeler, daughter of Sheldon and Harriet (Speers) Brown, of Akron.
Dr. Jacobs is a member of the Northeastern Medical association, the Ohio State Medical society, the Mississippi Valley Medical association, and the American Medical association, to all of which he is a valued contributor of medical articles, and through which he keeps fully posted in and abreast of every advance made in the science of medicine. He is also a thirty-second degree Mason, and is, beside, a Knight of Pythias, and member of the G. A. R. and of the Lojal Legion. In politics he is a republican, and has three times been elected as a member of the Akron school board.
As printed in A portrait and biographical record of Portage and Summit counties, Ohio (1898). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
WILLIAM CLOYD JACOBS, M. D., who at the time of death was, in point of service, the oldest medical practitioner at Akron, was also one of the most eminent. He was born February 26, 1840, at Lima, Allen County, Ohio, and was a son of Thomas K. and Ann (Elder) Jacobs.
Dr. Jacobs was of Welsh extraction and his great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. William Jacobs, his grandfather, was a native of Pennsylvania, where he lived until late in life and then joined his son at Lima, Ohio, where he died in 1848.
Hon. Thomas K. Jacobs, father of the late Dr. Jacobs, was born January 30, 1812, in Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1835. In 1836 he settled at Lima, where he worked at his trade of tailor, and took an active interest in politics. In 1840 he was elected treasurer of Allen County, serving six terms in that office, and in 1859 was elected to the State Legislature, serving three years. He acquired a large amount of real estate and dealt largely in the same. He died November 12, 1884. He married Ann Elder, who was a daughter of Noah and Ann (Alexander) Elder, and they had nine children, four of whom grew to maturity, as follows: William C.; Matilda, who married Henry A. Moore; Clara, who married John Brotherton; and Thomas K., of Lima, now retired from the medical profession and engaged in large real estate operations.
At the age of sixteen years, the late Dr. William C. Jacobs obtained the coveted appointment of cadet in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, but finding nautical training was not to his taste he resigned two years Utter, in 1859, and returned home with the intention of studying medicine, and later entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, where he was graduated March 3, 1862. On April 1, 1862, he was commissioned acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army and was immediately sent South and entrusted with various medical and surgical tasks. On account of an accident in the.succeeding October, he was given a leave of absence and during this period he received his commission as surgeon, being then under twenty-three years of age. He joined the Eighty-first Regiment, Oliio Vol. Inf., January 9, 1863, and served with it at Corinth, in the campaign against Atlanta, in the "March to the Sea," and in all the operations of the army from Savannah, Georgia to Raleigh, North Carolina. He was mustered out of the service at Camp Dennison, Ohio, July 21, 1865, young in years but old in medical and surgical experience.
Dr. Jacobs settled at Akron in October, 1865, and until his demise took an active interest in all that concerned this city. In politics he was always an adherent of the Republican party, but never accepted any office except membership on the Board of Education, to which he was thrice elected.
Dr. Jacobs was married (first) September 10, 1863, to Huldah M. Hill, of Piqua, Ohio. Dr. Jacobs was married (second), March 0, 1895, to Mrs. Mary H. Wheeler, a daughter of Sheldon and Harriet (Speers) Brown, of Akron. Mrs. Jacobs survives and resides at No. 641 East Buchtel avenue.
Dr. Jacobs is also survived by one son, Harold H., born February 10, 1866, who was associated with his father in medical practice and is now his.successor. Dr. Harold H. Jacobs graduated from Amherst College in
1888 and from the Ohio Medical College in 1891. As a medical practitioner he holds a high rank in the profession in this section. His office is in the Hamilton Block. September 2, 1891, Dr. Jacobs was united in marriage to Elizabeth Griffin, daughter of H. G. Griffin (deceased) of this county. Dr. and Mrs. Jacobs have three children: Hulda G., Harriet T. and Mary Elizabeth.
The late Dr. AV. "C. Jacobs was a Thirtysecond Degree Mason and was widely known in the fraternity. He belonged also to the Knights of Pythias and to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and to the Grand Army of the Republic.
As printed in Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: H. G. Griffin (b. 1840)
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