Jacob G. Francis
Male, Deceased Person
1870 – 1958
Who was Jacob G. Francis?
Jacob Gottwals Francis, also known as J.G. or Jay G. was an American author, a historian, a photographer, and a Church of the Brethren minister.
Francis was born in Oaks, Pennsylvania to John Umstead and Mary Jane Francis. In 1891, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ursinus College. He is credited with helping to found Elizabethtown College in 1899 located in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Francis's first choice was in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In 1895, he was named minister of the Green Tree Church of the Brethren in Oaks, Pennsylvania. He was known for travelling throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey on a bicycle.
Francis is joint author of a work of more than six hundred pages on the "History of the Brethren Church in Eastern Pennsylvania" and author of the "History of the Brethren in Lebanon County."
On January 11, 1900, Francis married Mary Frantz Zug. They had six children: Mary Irene, Willard Zug, Monica, Michael Ulrich, Susanna Royer, and Anna Marthella
He died in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He is buried in Midway Cemetery in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
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- Born
- Jan 13, 1870
Oaks - Also known as
- Jacob Francis
- Education
- Ursinus College
- Died
- Aug 27, 1958
Lebanon
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on July 23, 2013
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