an orphan. The plans were approved following a meeting on October 20, 1872, and Jacobs was made president. He received the first donation towards the orphanage from an orphan boy nine days later. The new Clinton High School opened on January 13, 1873, with 41 students. Jacobs periodically gave lectures over the course of the following semester, and he ceased preaching at Duncan's Creek and Shady Grove that year. Jacobs was the clerk of the South Carolina Presbytery from 1875 to 1878, and then of the Enoree Presbytery until 1897.

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