John Cook received word Wednesday afternoon that the Rev. James Calvin Jacoby, D. D. died at his home in Canon City, Colo., where burial services were held Thursday morning. At the time of his death he was 91 years of age. He had retired from the Lutheran ministry in 1928. About three years ago he and his wife lived in Mulberry, staying part of the time with his sister, Mrs. John D. Cook.

The Rev. Jacoby was born November 23, 1850, in Ross township, the son of Moses and Christiana (Kauffman) Jacoby. In 1870 he was confirmed as a member of the Fair Haven Lutheran church. His first year of college work was done at Wabash college, Crawfordsville, and at the beginning of his second year he transferred to Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, from which he graduated in 1876.

Being ordained in 1879, he began his preaching career at Zanesville, Ind., and in the next fifty years he was the pastor of churches in other sections of Indiana, in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Colorado. His last parish was in Holyoke, Colo., from which he retired on February 1, 1928.

The deceased man was active in all of the affairs of the Lutheran church and interdenominational Sunday school work. In 1924 he attended as a delegate the Ninth world's Sunday School convention at Glasgow, Scotland. At the close of the convention he made a tour through Scotland, England, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France, Egypt, Syria and Palestine.

Dr. Jacoby is survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Tatum of Logansport; and one sister, Mrs. John Cook of Mulberry. He had been married twice before.
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Mr. Cook has been informed that the body of the Rev. J. C. Jacoby is being brought to Mulberry by representatives of the Wellington, Kansas, Masonic lodge. Burial will presumably be made sometime Sunday at Fair Haven.
-- The Mulberry Reporter, November 28, 1941