PVT Martin C. Jacobson
1894 – 1936
USAR
WWI
Martin Charles Jacobson was born August 4, 1894 in Barrington, where he lived all his life, to Peter and Caronina “Lena” (Wewitzer) Jacobson
Jacobson served in the 34th Infantry Regiment in World War I from April, 1918 until his honorable discharge on April 26, 1919. The 34th was assigned to the 7th Division, and arrived in France on August 27, 1918. It saw action in the Puvenelle sector before the Armistice on 11 November 11th. Along with the rest of the division, the 34th then took up occupation duty in Germany during negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles.
He married Grace McGraw on May 24, 1923 in Barrington; they had no children.
Before the war Jacobson worked as a clerk for the C&NW; after the war he was an auto mechanic.
Private Martin Jacobson died January 12, 1936, in Cuba Township, and is buried with other family members in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
