Julius Jacobs Values Codes I – E – L – P Julius Jacobs was born in the town of Samotschin, Prussia, in 1840. His father was the village schoolmaster. At the age of thirteen, Julius Jacobs made his way to San Francisco via Panama, arriving in
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