Jacobs Family
The Jacobs family into which Edward married traces back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but not to the Mayflower, contrary to a tree online that connects the Jacobs line to the famous Elizabeth Tilley. Nicholas Jacob (it later became Jacobs) settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1635, where he kept an inn.
His descendants moved on to Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Cayuga County, N.Y., before Egbert C. Jacobs came to New York City as a young man in the 1840s. He married a woman from Brooklyn, Caroline Elliott Hoogs, called Cassie, and they had a large family including a second son Winthrop L. Jacobs, born in 1858. By 1870, the family had moved from Brooklyn to New Jersey, first to Newark, then Jersey City and then Bloomfield—next door to Montclair.
In Newark, Egbert may have worked in the cotton mill there, and later became a broker in the fruit and produce markets at a time when wholesaling of agricultural products was becoming established. Caroline’s sister Helen and her husband Edward Laforest lived nearby in Orange, and they owned a hotel in East Hampton, N.Y., where the Jacobs family vacationed.
After Egbert passed away in 1898 at age 73, Caroline and her daughter Emilia Caroline Jacobs, called Mellie, were enumerated at the Apaquogue boarding house in June 1900.
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