Notable Jacobses

Notable Jacobses

• Jul 02, 2025
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It may have been at that point that the two women began their careers as serial novelists, authoring multiple titles in several series of book for girls published in Boston by the L.C. Page Company. It may have been Mellie who got them started, but their Blue Bonnet and Cosy Corner book titles were credited to Caroline E. Jacobs, some by herself and some with a co-author.

A few years later, Cassie and Mellie moved west to Salt Lake City, joined by two of her other sons. Mellie died there of an unknown cause at age 37 in 1909, while Cassie continued to produce manuscripts up to her own death in 1916. From her obit, we know that the author’s copy of her last book, Blue Bonnet Keeps House, was received by her family days after her death.

Winthrop Jacobs did not go to Utah. He got involved together with his brother Arthur in the carpet trade in Newark during the early era of mass produced carpeting in America. While still teens, they are listed in the 1880 census with the surprising occupation of carpet designer. Winthrop continued in that profession, and you can find evidence of his many designs that are registered with the U.S. Patent Office. One of his patents was the subject of an important legal dispute that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court (see above).

Winthrop married an Irish girl, Rose Russell, in Jersey City in 1879. Edna Jacobs, called Mimi, the second of their five children, would later marry Edward Lawrence Rehm.