Life Sketches of Executive Officers, And Members of the Legislature of the State of New York
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The paternal ancestors of Mr. Jacobs were of the old New England revolutionary stock, and several of them participated in the struggle for independence; the maternal side Avere of German origin, one of them having held a high position under Fkedeeick the Great, of Prussia. When Mr. Jacobs was quite young, his parents removed to the city of Brooklyn, where, with the exception of a year, he has since resided. At an early age he went to a select school, and was progressing rapidly, when his family... removed to Philadelphia, which broke in upon his educa- 248 LIF£ SKETCHES. tional progi-ess ; and from his twelfth year, it may be said that his school-house studies ended. Returning to Brook- lyn, he entered a lawyer's oflBce, but growing dissatisfied with the day labor there laid out for him, sought and obtained a place in the large printing establishment of JoHK A. Gray & Co., in New York. Here, as copy- holder, he became acquainted with many newspaper men of prominence — their journals being issued from the estab- lishment — and soon cultivated a taste for the profession of a journalist.
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