Pitkin County CO Archives Biographies.....Jacobson , Jacob  September 14, 1861 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Comfortably located on a good ranch of eighty-three acres, all of which is

naturally tillable and productive, eighteen miles northwest of Aspen, and

carrying on there a profitable industry in general farming and raising stock,

Jacob Jacobson may seem to snap his fingers in the face of fate and smile at

fortune’s frowns.  He was born in Denmark on September 14, 1861, and when he was

five years old came with his parents to this country and settled in Berrien

county, Michigan, where the family prospered as farmers and won a competence of

worldly comfort.  His parents were Peter and Mary Jacobson, also Danes by

nativity and long descent.  They are now living in Michigan retired from active

pursuits and spending the evening of their days in quiet contentment, enjoying

the fruits of their earlier labors and rejoining in the progress and prosperity

of the new country which they helped to civilize and build up.  Both are members

of the Lutheran church in the old country but have affiliated with the Christian

church in the new.  Nine children were born in the household, of whom five have

died.  Two passed away in infancy, and Carrie, Hannah and William, at more

advanced ages.  The four who are living are:  Lizzie, wife of John Stump, of

Michigan; Sophie, wife of George Wagner, of Michigan; Carl, residing in Wyoming;

and Jacob, of Pitkin county, this state.  He received a limited education in the

public schools, and at an early age was put to hard work on the paternal

homestead.  He remained at home until he was twenty-one, then came to Colorado,

and at Longmont, Boulder county, passed two years as a ranch hand at

twenty-seven dollars a month and his board.  From there he moved to Aspen, and

until the spring of 1888 was employed at various occupations.  At that time he

took up his present ranch, a pre-emption claim of eighty-three acres, and since

then he has devoted his time and energies to its improvement and cultivation,

and the expansion of the stock business he is profitably conducting on it.  He

is earnestly interested in the progress and development of his county and state,

but in political matters he is independent of party control and exercises his

own judgment as to measures and candidates.  On February 14, 1899, he united in

marriage with Miss Ellen Kelley, a native of Ireland, the daughter of John and

Ellen (Comely) Kelley, who were also born in Ireland and prospered there as

farmers.  Two children were born in the family, Mrs. Jacobson and her sister

Mary, now Mrs. Joseph Bryant, of Cincinnati.  The parents were both devout

Catholics, and both are now deceased.  

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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