Background
JACOBS, Fred Clinton was born on September 13, 1865 in Winchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Enoch and Hannah Kidder (Jones) Jacobs.
JACOBS, Fred Clinton was born on September 13, 1865 in Winchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Enoch and Hannah Kidder (Jones) Jacobs.
Educated English High School, Boston, Massachusetts, and extension course University of Chicago.
He was in private practice in San Jose, California from 1895 to 1906. He was in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona from 1906 to 1923. Jacobs was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Jacobs was nominated by President Warren G. Harding on February 28, 1923, to a new seat created by 42 Statistics
837. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 2, 1923, and received his commission the same day. He assumed senior status on May 31, 1936.
Jacobs served in that capacity until his death.
Mason (32°).
Married Elizabeth Ferrell, of Mathis, Texas, November 11, 1923.