JACOBY, WM., REV.

JACOBY

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/5/2019 at 00:14:50

WEST POINT TOWNSHIP.

JACOBY, WM., REV., Pastor of the Assumption Church ; residence, Tyler street ; was born in the Independent District of Luxembourg, in 1834; at the age of 18, commenced the study of the classics, which he continued for nine years, and, in 1866, came to this country and entered the Clerical Seminary St. Francis, located at Milwaukee, Wis.; when his studies were completed, he was ordained at Dubuque, Iowa, and located as Pastor of the church at Lansing, Allamakee Co., Iowa ; he remained for nine years, thence to West Point in March, 1876, where he has since conducted the services of that Church.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879