Biography - Arnold O. Jacobi

"I found the following letter, signed by Charles A. Jacobi of Beaverton, Oregon, while I was visiting the Oregon Trail Regional Museum in Baker City, Oregon, earlier this month. Since it refers to Macoupin County, I obtained a copy of the letter. The letter includes the following:" – Frank Sellers

... My father, Arnold O. Jacobi, 32nd-degree Scottish Rite Mason, was born November 11, 1881, in Macoupin County, near Bunkerhill, Illinois - of German immigrant parents ... he has told me of ice-skating three miles along a creek to attend school in Bunkerhill. He graduated from Central Wesleyan College in Warrenton, Missouri, in 1906.

He went to Oklahoma when it was still Oklahoma Territory (in 1906). He ... met my mother, Cora Gilmore, ... when they attended CWC. He returned to (her home in Montgomery City, Missouri) in 1908, and they were married. After visiting with his family (eleven children grew to maturity of fifteen born) on the farm near Bunkerhill, they moved to El Reno, Oklahoma, where my sister and brother and I were born. I am the youngest and the single remaining member of my family. My wife and I have no children, nieces or nephews. ...

... both my father(-in-law) and mother-in-law lived in Oregon; in fact, we four moved to Salem, Oregon, in 1938. My father-in-law, George W. Taber, had been in Portland as a young man, perhaps in 1906, and had worked in a packinghouse in Portland. He was born February 4, 1881, in Douglas County, Missouri; he and Lora May Cantrell, born in Taney County, Missouri, were married in 1909 and moved to Oklahoma in either 1912 or 1913.

My wife, Mildred T. Jacobi, also is the single remaining member of her family..."

Contributed 2002 Aug 23 by Frank Sellers