Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Jacobs, Bernard C. 1832 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

HON. BERNARD C. JACOBS, one of the prominent, substantial and influential
business men of Lennox, Lincoln county, where he is engaged in the banking
business, was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1832. He is a son of Christopher G.
and Elizabeth (Steiner) Jacobs, both natives of the "Fatherland," and the
parents of nine children. They all reside in Germany with the exception of our
subject, he being the only one who came to this country.

   Bernard grew to manhood in his native land, where he received the advantage
of a collegiate education which thoroughly equipped him for the battle of life,
and in his twenty-first year came to America alone. He first located at Akron,
Ohio, where he remained two years and then settled at Pecatonica, Winnebago Co.,
Ill., buying an interest in a drugstore there. He had been married in 1856 and
was the parent of one daughter, Emma, now the wife of L. Clark, of Elmira, Ohio.
Mrs. Jacobs died in 1861, and in 1862 our subject sold out his drug store
expecting to enlist in the late war. By a combination of circumstances he was
prevented from doing so, and he then went to Chicago where he lived until 1863,
that year locating at Evansville, Wis., securing an engagement there as
instructor in the Evansville seminary. He remained in Evansville until 1876 when
he came to Perry township, Lincoln Co., Dak. Ter., preempted a quarter section
of land and returned for his family. He followed general farming on the farm for
six years and in 1882 removed to Lennox, where he has since resided. In 1884 he
organized a private bank and for the accommodation of his business erected the
beautiful and commodious brick structure he now occupies, which is a credit to
his enterprising methods. He is held in high esteem as a financier and a man
possessed of sound and mature judgment, and among the offices in the gift of the
people which be was elected to and filled with due credit, is that of county
superintendent of schools, the responsibility of which position he assumed in
the spring of 1877. He was re-elected in 1878 and served one year, when he was
appointed county treasurer to fill an unexpired term. In 1884 he was elected to
the latter office and discharged the duties imposed satisfactorily to all. In
1894 Mr. Jacobs was elected to the state legislature from the district in which
he resides, and as a senator in that body has a clean and unimpeachable record.
Politically he affiliates with the Republican party and is a strict adherent to
its principles.

   Mr. Jacobs was united in marriage the second time in Evansville, Wis., to
Mary Christ of that city, the ceremony occurring in 1864, and to them have been
born four children-Arthur, Lewis, Maud and Henry. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity and at present is treasurer of the grand chapter of South Dakota of
that order.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.

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