Marin-Solano-Colusa County CA Archives Biographies.....Jacobs, Francis J. 1846 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Francis J. Jacobs. Was born in Detroit, Michigan, September 15, 1846, and is
the son of John and Sabra Bradley Jacobs. His father being in the service during
the Mexican war, his mother resided chiefly at Bath, New Hampshire, till he was
three and one-half years old. His father then returned, and the family settled
in Buffalo, New York, and resided there till he was six years of age, when the
family moved to Morris, Grundy county, Ill., where young Jacobs remained till he
was fifteen, attaining his education in the public and private schools of
Chicago. At the age of fifteen he began the tinner's trade, and after nine
months he went to La Grange, Fayette county, Tennessee, and continued his trade
for about fifteen months. He was then drafted into the Confederate army, and was
attached to Company C, Fourteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry. This regiment
was afterwards merged, with some others, into the One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth
Regiment Confederate States' Army. He served three years and three months in the
Confederate army, being most of the time on detail duty and acting as a guide to
scouting parties. At the close of the war he made a tour of the northern States,
visiting his family at Cairo, Illinois, and his old home in New Hampshire,
returning to La Grange in 1868. Here he remained and followed his trade till
May, 1873, when he came to California. Upon his arrival he located at Dixon,
Solano county, thence to Princeton, Colusa county, thence to Marysville, thence
to Humboldt county, thence to Marysville again, thence to Rio Vista, Solano
county, and finally, in August, 1874, he came to San Rafael, and worked as a
journeyman at his trade till January, 1878, when he began operations on his own
account, and has since continued here.

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HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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