Ferris Jacobs, Jr.

         OBITUARY NOTES
 General Ferris Jacobs, Jr., of Delhi, N.Y., died on
Monday evening at White Plains, where he had been
under treatment for some time for paresis. He was
born in Delhi on March 20, 1836. He was graduated
at Williams College in 1856, in the same class with
President James A. Garfield. He practiced law in
Delhi until the war of the rebellion began, when he
enlisted in the Third New-York Cavalry. He was
elected Captain of Company E. He served through
the war, and was successively promoted until he was
made a Brevet Brigadier-General. When the war
was ended he returned to Delhi and resumed the
practice of the law. He was twice made District
Attorney of Delaware County on the Republican
ticket. He served as a member of the Forty-seventh
Congress. The interment will be at Delhi.