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Jacobs Family Collection

FONDS-199

1850/1999

1000.0 - Record Group Number
2023-005 - Accession

Bestand

The collection consists of correspondence, business records, photographs, and court documents created and/or maintained by members of the Isaac and Almira Jacobs family from the 1850s until the 1950s. The collection also contains a scrapbook compiled by an unknown member of the Huston family. The Jacobs estate was administered by the immediate family until after the death of Isaac Jacobs in 1905. In the 1940s, management of the Jacobs property was assumed by James Taylor, the husband of Martha E. Jacobs, who was one of Isaac Jacobs’ daughters (died 1949). The property was later managed by James Elmer Taylor, son of James and Martha Taylor. Excerpt from “The History of Black’s Station/Zamora and Its People” by Elaine Hermle, Zamora Historical Research Society, 1994, pages 137-139: “Isaac W. Jacobs was born in Hardy County, Virginia, on June 24, 1820, where he lived until the age of 15 when he moved to Ohio. In Ohio he completed requirements for a teacher’s certificate and administered a school. He then moved to Missouri where he studied law and later moved to Iowa where he worked as a lawyer. “In 1849 he married Almira E. Martin and moved to Texas for a short time before returning to Missouri. After gold was discovered in California, the Jacobs’ traveled to California via wagon train, arriving in 1854. He was admitted to the California bar in 1858 and was elected district attorney of Yolo County. He was elected to represent his district in the California Assembly in 1892. He purchased property in Yolo County near the town of Knights Landing where he farmed 400 acres and practicing law part time…Isaac and Almira had 12 children…Almira died on November 4, 1901 and Isaac on February 10, 1905.”

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