Jacob, John Jeremiah

Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1849
    Full name
    John Jeremiah Jacob
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    Family
    John J. Jacob (father), Susan McDantt (mother), Jane Baird of Washington (wife, 1853)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Educator
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Governor
    State legislature
    State judge

    John Jeremiah Jacob (Dickinson Alumni Record)

    Reference
    *Jacob, John Jeremiah - - Born December 9, 1829, in Hampshire county, W. Va.; p., John J. and Susan (McDantt) Jacob; A. B., 1849; lawyer; professor of logic and political economy in Missouri university, 1853-60; 1869 and 1879, member of the legislature of West Virginia; 1871-77, governor of West Virginia; 1881-88, judge of first judicial circuit, West Virginia; U. P. society; married, 1853, Jane Baird of Washington, Pa.  Died November 24, 1893, at his home, Wheeling, W. Va.
    George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 135.
    How to Cite This Page: "Jacob, John Jeremiah," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5970.