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Charles P. Jacobs (Indianapolis, Indiana, attorney, deputy clerk, and private sec. to Gov. Oliver P. Morton)

b. 1837-08-29 d. 1892-05

Indianapolis, Indiana, attorney, deputy clerk, and private secretary. New York native. Son of Charles R. Jacobs and Eliza Jacobs. Attended school in St. Joseph County, Michigan, in 1850. Graduate of Kalamazoo Theological Seminary in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, in 1857. Student at Albany Law School in Albany, New York, in 1860. Admitted to the bar in 1860. Attorney in Elkhart County, Indiana, in 1860. District attorney for in St. Joseph County, Indiana, in 1863. Deputy clerk of the Indiana Supreme Court in Indianapolis in 1865. Private secretary to Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton in Indianapolis in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Michigan, St. Joseph County, Lockport, p. 390A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Elkhart County, Elkhart, p. 408.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Kalamazoo Theological Seminary, 1854-5 (Detroit, MI: George E. Pomeroy and Company Printers, 1855,) p. 6.

The Cathode: Kalamazoo College Yearbook, 1896, (Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo Publishing Company, 1896), p. 82.

Circular and Catalogue of the Law School of the University of Albany for the Year 1859-1860, (Albany: Munsell & Rowland, 1860), p. 7.

Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999, Indiana County, District, and Probate Courts, Marion County Administrators Bonds, 1824-1939, p. 487.

Indianapolis City Directory for 1865, (Indianapolis: Hall & Hutchinson, 1865), p. 34, 272.

"In Memory of Mr. Roberts," Indianapolis Journal, (Indianapolis, IN), 28 May 1892, p. 5.

Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, (Chicago, New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1907), vol. 1, p. 202.

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Jacobs, Charles P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215018 (January 20, 2026).

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