Frances Wisebart Jacobs
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Frances Jacobs was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to Jewish Bavarian immigrants and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She married Abraham Jacobs, the partner of her brother Jacob, and came west with him to
Frances Wisebart Jacobs, ca. 1890
The home of Abraham and Frances Jacobs at the corner of 16th and Welton Streets (circa 1880) Denver, Colorado.
Denver Colorado in 1859
Denver, Colorado 22 years later, in 1881
William S. Friedman
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William Sterne Friedman was a Jewish-American rabbi who ministered in Denver, Colorado for fifty years.
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
…According to one Denver journalist, "Everyone put down his pencil to hear her tell of the crucial need for a hospital". Due to the advocacy by Rabbi William S. Friedman of Denver's Temple Emanuel, Denver's Jewish Hospital Association was organized in November 1889, incorporated in April 1890 and a hospital cornerstone…
Friedman c. 1938