Jacobs, Joseph, 1859-1929.

Joseph Jacobs (1859-1929), founder and owner of the Jacobs Pharmacy Company (Atlanta, Ga.).

From the description of Joseph Jacobs family papers, 1879-1985 (bulk 1886-1918). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476927

Dr. Joseph Jacobs (1859-1929) was an influential Atlanta pharmacist and entrepreneur. Jacobs was raised in Jefferson, Georgia, but his family later moved to Athens where at the age of 13, Jacobs began an apprenticeship with Dr. Crawford Long in the Long and Billups pharmacy. Encouraged by Dr. Long to continue his studies, Jacobs enrolled in chemistry courses at the University of Georgia and graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduation he established his own pharmaceutical business in Athens in 1879 called Jacobs' Pharmaceutical Laboratory. In 1884 Jacobs moved to Atlanta and began Jacobs' Pharmacy Company, a drug merchandising business that expanded into 16 stores. Jacobs' Pharmacy, located in the Five Points section of downtown Atlanta was the first drug store to serve Coca Cola by the glass at its profitable soda fountain. Jacobs also introduced the "cut-rate" plan of merchandising (i.e., selling merchandise for pennies less than suggested retail prices).

From the description of Joseph and Sinclair Jacobs Papers, 1878-1977, undated. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 155848050

Born in 1818, John LeConte graduated from the University of Georgia in 1838 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1841. He married Eleanor Josephine Graham in 1841, and they had three children: Mary Tallulah, Louis Julian, and John Cecil. In 1841 John established a medical practice in Savannah, and during his early career he published several articles on medical topics. His main interests were in chemistry and physics, however, and he became a professor of chemistry and natural philosophy at the University of Georgia in 1846. He resigned in 1855 as a result of a disagreement with the university president, Alonzo Church, and returned to the College of Physicians and Surgeons as a lecturer. From 1856 to 1868 he served as the professor of natural and mechanical philosophy at South Carolina College (later the University of South Carolina), located in Columbia. John LeConte published several important papers during his tenure in Georgia and South Carolina, including studies of the formation of ice columns in frozen soil and the effects of musical sound on a gas-jet flame. During the Civil War (1861-65) he served as superintendent of a Confederate niter works, which made explosives. In 1869 he became the first professor at the newly opened University of California, in Berkeley. In addition to teaching physics, John served as acting president of the institution in 1869 and as president from 1876 to 1881. Among his important scientific contributions during his years in California were articles on the nature of sounds in water (1882) and on the activities of small objects floating in water (1882, 1884). John LeConte was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1878. He died at his home in Berkeley in 1891, survived by his wife and his older son, Louis Julian, who became an engineer. The New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-791&sug=y Retrieved 3/17/2009.

Joseph LeConte, born in 1823, graduated from the University of Georgia in 1841. He enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1844 and received an M.D. in 1845. He married Elizabeth Caroline Nisbet in 1847 and established a medical practice in Macon. Because his first love was geology, however, he enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College in 1850 to study with the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz. Upon completing his studies in 1851 he returned to Georgia and became professor of chemistry and natural history at Oglethorpe University (then located near Milledgeville). In 1852 Joseph was appointed professor of geology and natural history at the University of Georgia. Involved in a dispute with the university president, he left the university a year after his brother departed, and in 1857 he became professor of chemistry and geology at South Carolina College. During the Civil War he aided the Confederacy, first in producing medicines and later in the niter works. As his brother John had done, Joseph joined the faculty of the University of California, departing for the West Coast in 1869. Although he often expressed a desire to return to the South, he readily adapted to his new state, where he gained fame for his success as a professor of geology and physiology. The author of about 200 publications, including nine books, Joseph LeConte won special recognition for his Elements of Geology (1877), Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision (1881), and Evolution and Its Relation to Religious Thought (1888). Revised four times, the geology textbook remained in use until the 1920s. A detailed study of the physiology of human vision, Sight was the first work of its kind in America. Evolution enjoyed notable success as an effort to reconcile the theory of evolution with Christian beliefs. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1875, Joseph LeConte served as president of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891) and the Geological Society of America (1896). A devoted camper and mountain lover, he was a charter member of the Sierra Club. His Journal of Ramblings through the High Sierra of California was published in 1875 and reissued in 1930 and 1960. His Autobiography was published in 1903, and his 'Ware Sherman, an account of his escape from Union troops near the end of the Civil War, was published in 1937 and reissued in 1999. LeConte died in 1901 while camping in Yosemite National Park. The New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-791&sug=y Retrieved 3/17/2009.

From the description of Jacobs, Joseph, 1859-1929 - collection, 1925. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 316221864