Notes:
Data researcher is Doug Mumma.
Served in the Civil War
No children
"The Jacoby family genealogy: a record of the descendants of the pioneer, Peter Jacoby, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania", by Henry Sylvester Jacoby
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James Henry Jacoby, son of George and Maria (Mumma) Jacoby, was born May 1842 at Seven Mile, Butler Co., 0.; tobacconist, grocer, lumber merchant, traveling salesman of iron nails; Presbyterian; home in Middletown, 0., Cincinnati (1876-'79), and Philadelphia; died 13 July 1898; buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. He married, 18 Apl. 1867, at Middletown, Lydia A. Lane (3184-a), daughter of Henry Polhemus and Rebecca (Barcalow) Lane, born 18 Apl. 1844 in Middletown; Presbyterian; died 1 Jan. 1925, in Los Angeles, Calif.; buried in same cemetery as husband. After her husband's death she moved in 1911 to a ranch near Ontario, Calif., to live with a nephew, and in 1919 to Los Angeles to live with a niece, Mrs. Edwin P. Thayer. They had no children.
In Middletown James was one of the prime movers in the firm of The Wilson & McCaulay Tobacco Co.; in the grocery and lumber business he was associated with the firm of Jacoby & Kelly, of which his father was also a member. While he lived in Philadelphia, be was a traveling salesman for John M. Young of Williamsport, Pa, manufacturer of iron nails.
He was in the servece of the United State in the Civil War. On 18 Dec. 1863 at Cincinnati, he was appointed as Master's Mate, U. S. Navy, on the U. S, Receiving Ship Clara Dolsen, and 19 Feb. 1864 as Master Mate on the U.S. Steamship Robb, a gunboat in the Mississippi Squadron. He was honorably discharged 11 Nov. 1865 (Official Roster of Soldiers of State of Ohio in War Of Rebellion, 1861-'66, v.12„ p. 23). His name is inscribed in the Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneer Monument of Butler County, at Hamilton, O.