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Catherine's Family

Field John Jacobs

Mary Ann Beasley Jacobs

Catherine Jacobs

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Field John Jacobs

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Mary Ann Beasley Jacobs

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Donald C Jacobs

Joe & Jill Biden in mid 1970s

1st Cousins - Daniel & Laynie

Joyce Vandever with grandchildren Daniel & Laynie

Livingston Lionel Jacobs

Louis Jacobs

Mary Jacobs

Mary P (Oxendine) Jacobs

Jacques Jacob

Maud Edith Jacobs Krushka

Ruth Engel

Annie (Jacobs) Doss

John Fritz (center)

Anna Tisserand Fritz

Gertrude Gertie D. Fritz

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In 1865, in the year that Catherine Jacobs was born, on March 4th, President Abraham Lincoln was sworn in for a second term. A little over a month later, he would be assassinated by a Confederate sympathizer - 4 days after the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, which had effectively ended the Civil War.

In 1911, by the time she was 46 years old, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole, along with four fellow Norwegian explorers. After hearing that Peary had beaten him to the North Pole, Amundsen decided to tackle the South Pole. On December 14th, he succeeded.

In 1922, when she was 57 years old, on November 4th, British Egyptologists George Carnarvon and Howard Carter unearthed the first step leading to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. By the end of the month they had unearthed the steps and broken through the door into the intact tomb. This was the only tomb that had remained unlooted that had been found (and is, to date). Filled with gold, jewels, and ancient everyday items, the find was priceless - in terms of money and history.

In 1931, by the time she was 66 years old, on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

In 1954, in the year of Catherine Jacobs's passing, on May 17th, the Supreme Court released a decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling stated that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional thus paving the way for integration in schools.