Thornwell Jacobs
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Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, president of Oglethorpe University, shown sealing the last cylinder to be placed in the Crypt of Civilization.
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15 February 1877 Clinton, South Carolina |
| Died | 4 August 1956 Clinton, South Carolina |
| Occupation | Presbyterian minister, author, educator, business executive |
| Known for | educator, "time capsule" |
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William Plumer Jacobs |
William Plumer Jacobs
Thornwell Jacobs (1877–1956) was an educator, author, and a Presbyterian minister.
Jacobs was born in Clinton, South Carolina, February 15, 1877, at the Thornwell Orphanage. The orphanage was founded by his father, Reverend William Plumer Jacobs. His mother was Mary Jane (Dillard) Jacobs.
Jacobs learned the printing trade while he was still quite young. Later he earned the Bachelor of Arts degree and Master of Arts degree from South Carolina's Presbyterian College in 1895, also founded by his father. He also graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey in 1899.
His grandfather Ferdinand Jacobs taught Mathematics and Astronomy at the antebellum Oglethorpe University, based in Milledgeville, GA, from 1845 to 1849.
Jacobs served as a Presbyterian pastorate in Morganton at the Presbyterian Church from 1900 to 1903. He then worked in advertising in Nashville, Tennessee, until 1905. After this time Jacobs began institutional support for the Thornwell Orphanage.
Jacobs is noted for revitalizing and rebuilding the antebellum college of Oglethorpe University. He became its president on January 21, 1915 and continued in that position for nearly three decades. Oglethorpe University, named after James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of the colony of Georgia, had been chartered a Presbyterian institution in 1835. It had been shut down during the American Civil War and did not successfully reopen until Jacobs intervened.
In 1922 Jacobs rediscovered the burial place of General James Edward Oglethorpe in Cranham, England.
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