Biography of Lewis Jacobs
Lewis Jacobs, President of the Bank of San Bernardino, and one of the oldest residents and most successful business men of Southern California, was born in Prussia, Europe, in 1831; immigrated to America at the age of twenty years, and a year later, in 1852, came to California, and to what is now San Bernardino County, then a part of Los Angeles County, before the town of San Bernardino was laid off. Being entirely dependent upon his own resources of brain and muscle, he started out to earn a living with a pack on his back, selling goods from door … Read more