History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 920, Vermont Township
H. S. Jacobs, Justice of the Peace, was born in 1822 in
Kentucky; his father, John Jacobs, was a native of old Virginia, a
sailor, who had to discontinue his occupation prior to the war of 1812,
owing to the cessation of commerce and the troubles which led to the
war. He moved to Kentucky in 1810, married Nancy Gwinn, by whom he had
12 children. Harrison S., the 5th child, attained his 12th year, when
his parents moved with him to Missouri; at the age of 18 he went to St.
Louis, learned the chair-maker’s trade, married Miss M. W. Coolidge,
and in 1849 settled in Astoria, continuing the business of chair-making
4 years. In 1870 he was elected Justice of the Peace for the tp. of
Vermont, in which capacity he has given great satisfaction.
