CHAPTER LIV 

 HENRY BARTON JACOBS, M.D. 



SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION, FROM 1904 TO IQ2O 



A THAT historic meeting in Baltimore on January 28, 1904, 

 when the National Tuberculosis Association was sug- 

 gested, the choice of a secretary fell tentatively upon Dr. 

 Henry Barton Jacobs. With the establishment of the society this 

 office was definitely conferred upon him and this position he 

 filled until his resignation in 1920. While the duties of secretary 

 were largely performed by the executive secretary, yet Dr. 

 Jacobs' interest in the tuberculosis cause has never flagged, and 

 his voice in the development of the organization has always been 

 raised with enthusiasm for all that marked progress and efficiency 

 in the work of the Association. 



Dr. Jacobs was born in South Scituate, Plymouth County, 

 Mass., June 2, 1858. His parents were Barton Richmond and 

 Frances Almira Ford Jacobs. We are informed of the remarkable 

 fact that through these parents he is a direct descendant of seven 

 of the passengers on the "Mayflower," which arrived in Plymouth 

 December 29, 1620. Dr. Jacobs received his preliminary educa- 

 tion at the High School in Hingham, Mass., and at the Phillips 

 Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. He took his bachelor's degree at 

 Harvard in 1883, and was graduated with the degree of M.D. 

 from the Harvard Medical School in 1887. He then became a 

 medical intern for one and a half years in the Massachusetts Gen- 

 eral Hospital on the East Side Service under Dr. Reginald H. 

 Fitz and his colleagues. Dr. Jacobs left the hospital in the spring 

 of 1888 and was appointed physician to the Boston Dispensary, 

 opening an office for general practice at 8 Hancock Street, Boston. 

 In August, 1888, he became the private physician of Robert 

 Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and after 

 spending the winter of 1888-89 m Ringwood, N. J., moved to 



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