Bio: Jacobi, Henry

Surnames: JACOBI

---------Source ABBOTSFORD, WIS. CENTENNIAL BOOK - 1973

Jacobi, Henry

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Henry Jacobi was born in the town of Wilson in Sheboygan County, coming to the town of Holton, Marathon Co. during the year of 1878, where he bought eighty acres of timberland from the Wisconsin Central Railroad.

After a few years, Mr. Jacobi purchased the eighty acres adjoining his land to the west. These two pieces of land were all woods, with no roads of any kind.

He had one neighbor, Joe Kleiman, a Civil War veteran, who had homesteaded one hundred-sixty to the east of Jacobi’s land. There was much wild game; the deer were so plentiful, they came right up to the house and ate potato peelings that had been thrown out. Mr. Jacobi was chairman of the town of Holton for a few years, and had to walk to Wausau to attend county board meetings. He would follow the surveyors blaze lines. When he reached the town of Wein, there were roads and settlers along the way, where he could stay overnight and continue his journey in the morning.

When the Wisconsin Central Railroad logged off the pine, N.J. White built a sawmill on the Eau Pleine River a half mile to the south near where Sherman Harrop lives. Mr. Jacobi used to work in the logging camp and cut down the pine, some being four to five feet on the stump. Those days they did not saw down the trees; they had to chop them down, haul the logs to the river band, and float them down to the mill. Mr. Jacobi had to help drive or float the logs downstream to the mill.

He was a carpenter by trade, and built many of the frame barns, and some of the houses.