The Reverend William Plumer Jacobs

(1842-1917)

Graduate of the College of Charleston

and Columbia Theological Seminary

Pastor of Clinton, Duncan Creek, Shady Grove,

and Thornwell Presbyterian Churches

Founded and President of the

Thornwell Home and School for Children

Founder of Clinton College,

now Presbyterian College

Chairman of the Board of Trustees,

Presbyterian College

How one man could accomplish all that Dr. Jacobs has

done, is indeed a marvel...the explanation is...found in his

indefatigable industry and his rare capacity for doing things,

coupled with a through consecration to God, faith in prayer

and fidelity to truth and duty."

-- Rev. Thomas H. Law, D.D., 1917

Dum Vivimus Servimus

Marker is on South Broad Street, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Credits and Sources:

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