Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Jacobson, Henry J. March 11, 1889 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 539 - 540
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     HENRY J. JACOBSON conducts a modern and handsomely equipped undertaking 
establishment as head of the Jacobson Company, funeral directors of Portland. 
He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 11, 1889, a son of Lawrence and 
Johanna (Johnson) Jacobson. It was in 1907 that the father took up his abode 
in San Francisco, California, where he preached the gospel as a minister of 
the Christian church for several years. He has passed away and his widow now 
resides in Oakland, California.

     Henry J. Jacobson, who was largely reared in San Francisco, pursued his 
early education in the public schools and subsequently entered Healdsburg 
College of California, of which he is a graduate. He was engaged in real 
estate operations in the Golden state for a number of years prior to 1922, 
when he came to Portland, where two years later, in 1924, he embarked in the 
undertaking business by purchasing the enterprise that had been established by 
the A. D. Kenworthy Company at Lents. He has since carried on his interests of 
this character under the name of the Jacobson Company and maintains a 
splendidly appointed funeral home which is modern and complete in every 
detail, having been especially built for the purpose. Mr. Jacobson is 
secretary of the Portland Funeral Directors Association and also has 
membership in the Oregon State Funeral Directors Association.

     In early manhood Mr. Jacobson was united in marriage to Clarissa Hibbard, 
who left her native state of Pennsylvania for California. They are the parents 
of two sons, Harold and Eugene. Mr. Jacobson joined the Masonic fraternity at 
Modesto, California, and is now a member of Lents Lodge, F. & A. M. He is 
likewise affiliated with the Order of the Eastern Star, the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, the Rebekahs, the Woodmen of the World, the Modern Woodmen of 
America, the Knights of Pythias and the Grange. He is a valued member of the 
East Side Business Men's Club and the Mount Scott Chamber of Commerce and 
enjoys an enviable reputation as one of the enterprising, progressive and 
representative young residents of his adopted city. Greatly interested in 
music, he finds inspiration and pleasure in the art. The Jacobson Quartette, 
composed entirely of professional members, has won favorable recognition among 
the best known musical organizations of the Pacific northwest.

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