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- JULIUS CICERO JACOBS was born on his family's farm in George's Creek Valley in Allegany County, Maryland, on April 10, 1851. His parents were AHIMAAZ JACOBS and EMILY DROLLINGER (TROLLINGER). In 1853, when JULIUS was two years old, his parents moved from Maryland to Miami Township in Greene County, Ohio, where they purchased an 172-acre tract of undeveloped land, about a mile and a half west of the village of Yellow Springs on the present Dayton-Yellow Springs Road. There his father cleared the land, tilled the soil, raised various grain crops, and built a comfortable log cabin. Not much is presently known about JULIUS' younger years. However it is known that he grew to manhood on the home farm and that he completed his formal education by attending Antioch College for several terms. Then for the next five years he was engaged in the carpentry business in Yellow Springs and was reputedly a very fine craftsman. Love came into JULIUS'' life when he met HANNAH MIRIAM JOHNSON, who had been born on June 30, 1857. Her parents were JOSEPH REED JOHNSON and LYDIA ELIZABETH ESTLE. A few years later, JULIUS and HANNAH were married on December 9, 1875, in her parents' farm home near Clifton in Miami Township of Greene County, Ohio. Reverend E. S. Weaver officiated at the wedding. JULIUS soon adopted the initials "J. C." as his given name. He was a very gifted carpenter and woodworker. In fact, he made most of his own carpentry tools, as well a wood-turning lathe. Many of these are now in the possession of his great- grandsons, Randall Alan and James Richard Jacobs, Sr. They each are marked with JULIUS' stamp, "JCJ." J. C. loved farming and as a result, he and HANNAH took over part of his parent's farm and moved into the original log cabin in the center of the farm. Their first child, JAMES MADISON HARRIS JACOBS, was born there on January 28, 1877. He was followed by William Elmer in 1878, Florence Maude in 1881, Mary Pearl in 1884, Charles Walter in 1887 and Homer Harold in 1897. All of the childen grew to adulthood and were married. By the early 1880s, Yellow Springs was a thriving village and it was enjoying a time of prosperity. It had become an important railroad shipping point for farm products. Also, Antioch College had gained a fine reputation. The town had dry goods stores, drug stores, grocery stores, a lumber mill, a nursery, a carriage and buggy shop, a bakery, a notions store, a stationary store, a butcher shop, a milinery and dressmaking shop, a boot and shoe store, a clock and watch repair shop, as well as carpenters and cabinet makers, tailors, blacksmiths, lawyers, doctors, dentists and undertakers.
When his father, AHIMAAZ, died intestate on January 27, 1905, J. C. became the administrator of his estate, which was valued at $11, 415.17., including 172.62 acres in Section 26 of Miami Township of Greene County. Since J. C. and his brother, Jacob Thomas, were the only surviving heirs of AHIMAAZ, they shared his estate between them and remained on their portion of the family farm. Farming provided J. C. a good income and enough to send several of his children to Antioch College in Yellow Springs. Then after he retired from farming, he and HANNAH moved into a fine townhouse in Yellow Springs in about 1910, where they finished raising their youngest son, Homer, and spent their latter years. Meanwhile their son, Elmer, and later Charles, took over operating the farm for them. J. C. was affiliated with the Yellow Springs lodges of both the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. J. C. wrote his will on July 2, 1914, and in it he left his estate to HANNAH during her lifetime, or so long as she remained his widow. Then it was to be divided equally among his sons and daughters. He named his sons, JAMES MADISON HARRIS JACOBS and Charles Walter Jacobs, as executors of his will JULIUS passed away on August 10, 1924 and he was buried in Glen Forest Cemetery in Yellow Springs in a lot adjacent his parents. HANNAH passed away at the home of her daughter, Mary Pearl Birch, in New Castle, Indiana on October 4, 1932, and was buried beside JULIUS. She had belonged to the Presbyterian Church in Yellow Springs at the time of her death.
REFERENCES:
1. Hon. M. A. Broadstone; "History of Greene County, Ohio, Its People
and Institutions, Vol II"; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.; Indianapolis,
Indiana.
2. Will of J. C. Jacobs drafted July 2, 1914.
1920 United States Federal Census about Jullius C Jacobs
Name: Jullius C Jacobs
Age: 68
Birth Year: abt 1852
Birthplace: Maryland
[New York]
Home in 1920: Miami, Greene, Ohio
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Hannah M Jacobs
Father's Birthplace: Maryland
Mother's Birthplace: Maryland
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