Austin A. Jacobs (1880)

JACOBS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 9/2/2007 at 16:26:00

Winterset Madisonian - June 3, 1880
Winterset, Iowa
page 7

DEATH OF AUSTIN JACOBS

Austin A. Jacobs, of this city, whose death has been expected for some weeks, finally succumbed to the Destroyer on Monday of this week. Consumption, the fatal disease which carried him away, gave signs of its approach only a few years since. Two or three months ago he was so broken down in health that he started from his Illinois home on a trip to the Rocky Mountains, in hopes of temporary recuperation, at least, but became so weak on the way that he was compelled to stop with his parents in this city, and since then his frail barque has been rapidly drifting down the stream of time until at last it floated quietly out upon the broad ocean of eternity.

It was peculiarly sad that Mrs. Jacobs, owing to the condition of her own health, was not permitted to be with her husband in the last hours of his life. There would have been consolation in the remembrance that she had been able in some degree to sweeten the bitterness of the last agony, but it was denied her.

Austin was reared in Winterset, and learned his trade (that of printing) in the News office, when it was owned by Mr. J. C. Morgan. In 1875, he in company with Richard Thompson, started out on a prospecting tour, and located at Chrisman, Ill., where the two soon became proprietors of the Chrisman Leader. After a season of prosperity here, they sold out and went into journalism on a larger scale in Danville, Ill., becoming the proprietors of the Danville Post, and Austin continued in this enterprise until compelled to yield to the dictates of disease.

Austin Jacobs was a young man of good habits, manly character, and fine abilities, and had he been favored with the blessings of health, would have won distinction in the world.