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href="/wiki/College_of_Charleston" title="College of Charleston">College of Charleston</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Theological_Seminary" title="Columbia Theological Seminary">Columbia Theological Seminary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Mary Jane Dillard</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="April 20, 1865">1865</span>; died <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="January 16, 1879">1879</span>)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Family</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thornwell_Jacobs" title="Thornwell Jacobs">Thornwell Jacobs</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Plumer_Jacobs_II&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Plumer Jacobs II (page does not exist)">William Plumer Jacobs II</a> (grandson)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Plumer_Jacobs_signature.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/William_Plumer_Jacobs_signature.png/150px-William_Plumer_Jacobs_signature.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/William_Plumer_Jacobs_signature.png/225px-William_Plumer_Jacobs_signature.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/William_Plumer_Jacobs_signature.png/300px-William_Plumer_Jacobs_signature.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="122" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Plumer Jacobs</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="/./: syllable break">.</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɜːr/: 'ur' in 'fur'">ɜːr</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">PLOO</span>-mur</i></a>; March 15, 1842 – September 10, 1917) was an American <a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterian</a> minister who founded <a href="/wiki/Thornwell_Orphanage" title="Thornwell Orphanage">Thornwell Orphanage</a> and what is now <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_College" title="Presbyterian College">Presbyterian College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Clinton,_South_Carolina" title="Clinton, South Carolina">Clinton, South Carolina</a>. He was the pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Clinton for 47 years, from 1864 to 1911. </p><p>Jacobs was first licensed to preach by the Charleston Presbytery in April 1863 and was made pastor of three churches in Clinton shortly following his graduation from <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Theological_Seminary" title="Columbia Theological Seminary">Columbia Theological Seminary</a> in May 1864. Within four years, he had taken on preaching at First Presbyterian Church in Clinton full-time. He was a part of the Clinton Library Association and the Clinton High School Association, the latter of which founded Clinton High School in January 1873. Thornwell Orphanage opened under Jacobs's direction to ten children on October 1, 1875. In 1880, Clinton High School became Clinton College, and the school conferred degrees for the first time in 1882, the first of which went to Jacobs's daughter. This school eventually became Presbyterian College; Jacobs is credited as the school's founder and is the namesake of Jacobs Hall, present on the campus today. In 1909, Jacobs founded Thornwell Memorial Church on the orphanage's campus since the large number of children at the orphanage overcrowded First Presbyterian, and he ministered at both churches until retiring from First Presbyterian in September 1911. He died in September 1917; many of his obituaries referred to him as the "<b>Father of Clinton</b>" among other nicknames. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Plumer_Jacobs&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>William Plumer Jacobs was born on March 15, 1842, in <a href="/wiki/Yorkville,_South_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorkville, South Carolina">Yorkville, South Carolina</a>, to Mary Elizabeth (<span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a> Redbrook</span>) and Ferdinand Jacobs.<sup id="cite_ref-prespast_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prespast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He enrolled at the <a href="/wiki/College_of_Charleston" title="College of Charleston">College of Charleston</a> at the age of 16<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynn192420_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynn192420-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and graduated with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> degree in March 1861.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs193778_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs193778-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Afterwards, he graduated from <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Theological_Seminary" title="Columbia Theological Seminary">Columbia Theological Seminary</a> in May 1864.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937110_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937110-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-prespast_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prespast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Aged 17, Jacobs was in attendance when the <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_General_Assembly" title="South Carolina General Assembly">South Carolina General Assembly</a> voted in convention to <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Declaration_of_Secession" title="South Carolina Declaration of Secession">secede from the United States</a> on December 20, 1860.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs193769_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs193769-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a supporter of secession, and he wrote in his diary that the <a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Flavel_Jamison&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Flavel Jamison (page does not exist)">David Flavel Jamison</a>'s declaration of South Carolina as an independent nation "was the noblest moment of my life".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs193769_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs193769-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, Jacobs had been reporting for the <i>Carolinian</i> on the activity of the <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="South Carolina House of Representatives">South Carolina House of Representatives</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs193767_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs193767-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was moved to cover the <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Senate" title="South Carolina Senate">South Carolina Senate</a> the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs193773_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs193773-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On February 26, 1861, he wrote in his diary expressing support of a prospective <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter" title="Battle of Fort Sumter">Confederate attack on Fort Sumter</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs193776_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs193776-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he later wrote that the United States' surrender in the battle was "glorious news".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs193778_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs193778-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the final day of that year, he referred to himself as a "proud citizen" of the Confederacy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs193788_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs193788-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 15, 1862, Jacobs was declared ineligible for <a href="/wiki/Confederate_Conscription_Acts_1862%E2%80%931864" title="Confederate Conscription Acts 1862–1864">conscription</a> due to a diagnosis of <a href="/wiki/Amaurosis" title="Amaurosis">amaurosis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs193793_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs193793-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Plumer_Jacobs&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jacobs was licensed to preach by the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Presbyterian_Church_(USA)_synods_and_presbyteries#Synod_of_South_Atlantic" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Presbyterian Church (USA) synods and presbyteries">Charleston Presbytery</a> on April 3, 1863.<sup id="cite_ref-prespast_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prespast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937105_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937105-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was ordained pastor of Clinton First Presbyterian Church, <a href="/wiki/Duncan%27s_Creek_Presbyterian_Church" title="Duncan's Creek Presbyterian Church">Duncan's Creek Presbyterian Church</a>, and Shady Grove Presbyterian Church in May 1864 and began teaching Bible classes around the same time.<sup id="cite_ref-prespast_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prespast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937111–112_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937111–112-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had previously preached in Clinton in July 1862, at the invitation of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zelotes_L._Holmes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zelotes L. Holmes (page does not exist)">Zelotes L. Holmes</a>, who helped in first organizing the Clinton First Presbyterian Church.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynn192428_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynn192428-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He officiated his first wedding on November 10, 1864, for which he received $50 (equivalent to $974 in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937115_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937115-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jacobs had been made chairman of the Clinton Male Academy board of trustees by February 1866<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937126_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937126-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and received an honorary <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">Master of Arts</a> degree from the College of Charleston in March 1867.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937127_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937127-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He declined offers to preach in <a href="/wiki/Albany,_Georgia" title="Albany, Georgia">Albany, Georgia</a>, in March 1868,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937128_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937128-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in <a href="/wiki/Good_Hope,_Alabama" title="Good Hope, Alabama">Good Hope, Alabama</a>, in November 1871.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937142_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937142-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By December 1868, he had ceased preaching at Duncan's Creek and Shady Grove and was working solely at First Presbyterian Church in Clinton.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937130_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937130-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Clinton Library Society, with Jacobs as president, first introduced the idea of forming a high school in Clinton at their meeting on March 7, 1872.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937144_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937144-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Clinton High School Association was formed several months later.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937150_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937150-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That same year, Jacobs began planning an orphanage, which he named Thornwell after <a href="/wiki/James_Henley_Thornwell" title="James Henley Thornwell">James Henley Thornwell</a>; the idea of founding an orphanage in Clinton had been brought up some months earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937150–151_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937150–151-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jacobs was said to have an interest in founding an orphanage because his mother was an orphan.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynn192418_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynn192418-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plans were approved following a meeting on October 20, 1872, and Jacobs was made president.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937151_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937151-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He received the first donation towards the orphanage from an orphan boy nine days later.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937152_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937152-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new Clinton High School opened for the first time on January 13, 1873, with an enrollment of 41 students, and Jacobs periodically gave lectures over the course of the following semester.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937162_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937162-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By February 1873, the school had grown to fifty students and three teachers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937167_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937167-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1875, Jacobs began working as the clerk of the South Carolina Presbytery, an office he held for four years before taking up the same role at the Enoree Presbytery until 1897.<sup id="cite_ref-prespast_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prespast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jacobs attempted to create and maintain a <a href="/wiki/Black_church" title="Black church">Black church</a> under the auspices of the <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_the_United_States" title="Presbyterian Church in the United States">Presbyterian Church in the United States</a> (PCUS; the "Southern Presbyterian Church") in addition to his existing preaching duties, but gave this up in 1874 after much of the membership had left for the <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_the_United_States_of_America" title="Presbyterian Church in the United States of America">Presbyterian Church in the United States of America</a> (PCUSA; the "Northern Presbyterian Church") instead.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937171_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937171-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Construction on the orphanage continued throughout the rest of the year, and in January 1875 a date of October 1 was set as a target for its opening.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937173_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937173-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The target was met, and Thornwell opened on October 1, 1875, housing ten orphan children.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1877, Thornwell had over $11,000 (equivalent to $315,000 in 2023) in assets, with nearly no debt,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937190_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937190-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Jacobs set a goal of 24 children to be housed there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937189_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937189-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the close of 1882, Jacobs's salary from First Presbyterian Church was $800 (equivalent to $22,900 in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937239_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937239-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jacobs first mentioned the idea of "Clinton College" in his diary on May 29, 1874,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937170_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937170-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he expanded on this with an idea of turning Clinton High School into a college on July 3, 1875.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937175_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937175-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1876, he set out a goal of laying the Clinton College cornerstone before May 28, 1885.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937183_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937183-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On September 11, 1880, Jacobs directed <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_States_Lee_(educator)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William States Lee (educator) (page does not exist)">William States Lee</a>, the principal of Clinton High School, to "organize the first of his college classes".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937227_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937227-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wslee_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wslee-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee was shortly thereafter made the first president of Clinton College.<sup id="cite_ref-wslee_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wslee-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The college received its charter on August 20, 1882, which allowed it to confer degrees for the first time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937237_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937237-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The school's first commencement was held in July 1883; the first degree was given to Jacobs's daughter, and two other women also comprised the first graduating class.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937241_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937241-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wslee_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wslee-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 1885, Jacobs referred to the school as "Clinton Presbyterian College of South Carolina", and later that year he used a variant of the modern name for the first time when he called it "the Presbyterian College of Clinton, South Carolina".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937251–252_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937251–252-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Four new professors were added to the college in October 1885, including its new president, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Perry_Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Perry Smith (page does not exist)">Robert Perry Smith</a>. At this same meeting, Jacobs agreed to lecture weekly on "Bible themes".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937252_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937252-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The college had grown to 80 students by the opening of the 1889–1890 academic year; on September 22, 1889, Jacobs set a goal of four endowed professorships for the college.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937278_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937278-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around this same time, Jacobs estimated the value of the orphanage property to be $48,700 (equivalent to $1,651,000 in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937282_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937282-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The college's third president, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Whitner_Kennedy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph Whitner Kennedy (page does not exist)">Joseph Whitner Kennedy</a>, died in February 1891 and was replaced on an interim basis by <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Irvin_Cleland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Irvin Cleland (page does not exist)">John Irvin Cleland</a>, who was one of four members of the faculty.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937291_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937291-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June of that year, Cleland was elected president and a fifth member of the faculty was hired.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937293_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937293-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cleland was later replaced by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ephriam_Clark_Murray&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ephriam Clark Murray (page does not exist)">Ephriam Clark Murray</a> in 1894.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937311_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937311-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By October 1894, the orphanage's assets had grown to over $17,000 (equivalent to $599,000 in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937314_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937314-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Earlier that year, Jacobs had remarked that the orphanage had grown to a size equivalent to that of the town of Clinton thirty years prior.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937310_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937310-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1909, Jacobs opened Thornwell Memorial Church on the orphanage's campus to alleviate the issue of limited space at First Presbyterian Church caused by the growing number of orphans.<sup id="cite_ref-prespast_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prespast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jacobs retired from preaching at First Presbyterian Church in Clinton in September 1911, after 47 years.<sup id="cite_ref-keowee-obit_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keowee-obit-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He maintained his pastorate at Thornwell Memorial until his death, and even preached there on the day before his death.<sup id="cite_ref-herald_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herald-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Plumer_Jacobs&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Plumer_Jacobs_grave.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/William_Plumer_Jacobs_grave.jpg/170px-William_Plumer_Jacobs_grave.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/William_Plumer_Jacobs_grave.jpg/255px-William_Plumer_Jacobs_grave.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/William_Plumer_Jacobs_grave.jpg/340px-William_Plumer_Jacobs_grave.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3002" data-file-height="3743" /></a><figcaption>Jacobs' headstone at Clinton Cemetery in Clinton, South Carolina</figcaption></figure> <p>Jacobs met Mary Jane Dillard on August 18, 1864,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937114_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937114-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the pair were engaged January 26, 1865.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937119_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937119-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They married on April 20, 1865, in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Coldwater,_South_Carolina&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Coldwater, South Carolina (page does not exist)">Coldwater, South Carolina</a>, and had seven children, five of whom survived to adulthood.<sup id="cite_ref-prespast_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prespast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among them was <a href="/wiki/Thornwell_Jacobs" title="Thornwell Jacobs">Thornwell Jacobs</a>, who was president of <a href="/wiki/Oglethorpe_University" title="Oglethorpe University">Oglethorpe University</a> from 1913 to 1941 and contributed to their <a href="/wiki/Crypt_of_Civilization" title="Crypt of Civilization">Crypt of Civilization</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jacobs's grandson, <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Plumer_Jacobs_II&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Plumer Jacobs II (page does not exist)">William Plumer Jacobs II</a>, was the 12th president of Presbyterian College from 1935 to 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mary died at 11:35 a.m. on January 16, 1879,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937212_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937212-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after suffering illnesses periodically for the preceding year.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937202–212_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937202–212-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jacobs was an advocate for the <a href="/wiki/Temperance_movement" title="Temperance movement">temperance movement</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937170_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937170-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he authored a bill in February 1878 to outlaw the sale or manufacturing of alcohol in Clinton, which passed the legislature and was signed into law several weeks later.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937224_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937224-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Politically, Jacobs supported <a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Tilden" title="Samuel J. Tilden">Samuel J. Tilden</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1876_United_States_presidential_election" title="1876 United States presidential election">1876 United States presidential election</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937186_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937186-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was a supporter of the "Prohibition ticket" in a local election in 1878.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937204_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobs1937204-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jacobs was awarded the honorary <a href="/wiki/Legum_Doctor" title="Legum Doctor">Doctor of Laws</a> degree by <a href="/wiki/Erskine_College" title="Erskine College">Erskine College</a> in 1886.<sup id="cite_ref-prespast_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prespast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He died around 6:00 a.m. on September 10, 1917, aged 75, at his home in Clinton.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-keowee-obit_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keowee-obit-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was not sick around the time of his death and had only begun to complain of a headache that morning; he was found unconscious shortly afterward.<sup id="cite_ref-keowee-obit_52-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keowee-obit-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Contemporary newspaper reports indicated that he died due to "an affection of the heart".<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His funeral was scheduled for September 12, with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Davison_McDowell_Douglas_(pastor)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Davison McDowell Douglas (pastor) (page does not exist)">Davison McDowell Douglas</a>, then the president of Presbyterian College, leading the service.<sup id="cite_ref-keowee-obit_52-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keowee-obit-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Plumer_Jacobs&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jacobs is now the namesake of many aspects of the institutions which he founded and developed. At Presbyterian College, Jacobs Hall was constructed in 1915 and housed an auditorium, library, and laboratory space. After several renovations, the building currently houses the departments of business, economics, and military science.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jacobs's personal library has been preserved and is housed on campus at Thomason Library as the Founder's Library, which totals 2,500 to 3,000 volumes.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jacobs was referred to by many of his obituaries as the "Father of Clinton",<sup id="cite_ref-nwh-obit_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nwh-obit-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-keowee-obit_52-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keowee-obit-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gvl-obit_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gvl-obit-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Greenville_News" title="The Greenville News">The Greenville News</a></i> called him "one of the grand old men of South Carolina".<sup id="cite_ref-nwh-obit_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nwh-obit-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Plumer_Jacobs&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWaugh2023" class="citation web cs1">Waugh, Barry (December 7, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external 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