Jacoby, Joel

JACOBY

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 11:58:06

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.597

JACOBY, JOEL, Indianola, one of the most enterprising citizens who ever made his home in Indianola, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1828; he learned the trade of shoemaker; he left Pennsylvania and went to Ohio, and from the latter place to Indiana, and came to this county in 1855, and has made it his home since that time; he organized and drilled the first company enlisted in the county during the late war; he was one of the most active and influential men in getting the city incorporated, and he is entitled to great credit in regard to building the court-house; as an energetic, industrious man he has few equals; always planning some public or private improvement, and never resting or halting until he sees it completed; he has infused a spirit of laudable enterprise in more than one direction, and his labors and efforts in regard to securing railroad communication is well known to every resident of the county; he married Miss L. Waddle in 1852; she was born in Indiana; their family consists of three children, Alcesta M., Lillie, and Charles Lewis.