Fairmont State University - Mound Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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FAIRMONT STATE NORMAL SCHOOL J. M. JACOBS JM. JACOBS was born near Little Falls, Monongalia County, West Virginia, • July 16, 1860. He grew up on a farm in his native county, attending the public schools during the winter months, and doing farm work in the summer and fall. From 1879 to 1881, he taught school in Clinton District, Monongalia County, and later attended select schools at Smithtown and Mt. Harmony. From 1884 to 1895, he was a merchant, railroad agent and postmaster at Little Falls. Since coming to Fairmont, he has been active in the mercantile business, and, today, is President of The Fairmont Mold Foundry Company, and Manager and Treasurer of The Jacobs-Hutchinson Hardware Company, who do a large wholesale hardware business in this city. Mr. Jacobs served his State as member of the House of Delegates in 1907, and in the special session of 1908. He was prominent in some of the most important committees in these two sessions. He served on the Building Committee of the Y. M. C. A. and the First M. E. Church of this city, and is, today, a director and trustee in these institutions. He was Secretary of the Fairmont Board of Trade, and is an active member of the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce, a Director and Vice-President of Cook ' s Hospital Company, and a Director of the First National Bank of Fairmont. Mr. Jacobs has always been a warm friend of the Fairmont State Normal School. His son and two daughters are graduates of the school, and over two hundred young lady students of this institution have been members of his Sunday School class during the past few years. For his splendid loyalty and helpfulness to our school, we dedicate to him, this, the 1916 Mound, hoping that he may be spared many years of service to the various institutions and business interests that make West Virginia, our native State, a bigger and better commonwealth, for, as a result of these things, do we, the students of Fairmont State Normal, enjoy the best in life.

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FAIRMONT STATE NORMAL SCHOOL Fairmont State Normal School Flower, Yellow and White Daisy Colors, Yellow and White Fairmont, We Cheer You HAIL to the Fairmont Normal School! Hail to the Fairmont Normal School! Come and join us in our song of praise, For this our school we cheer! Hear all our old Alumni sing, Here all their fondest memories cling, Round their Alma Mater Which is to them so dear, Come praise the Normal, one and all; Come be all loyal students, Come hear her call! Raise now her banner yellow and white And let her colors ever stand to us lor right. Chorus Fairmont State Normal School! We cheer you! We cheer you! You are the finest school In all old West Virginia! We sing of your glories all, Both faculty and students, And all who hearken to your call, Hurrah! Hurrah!