From 1868 to 1871, he was joint editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. Civic work was an important part of his life. He advocated for birth control and civil service reform, and opposed prohibition. Jacobi was strongly anti-Hohenzollern during World War I. In the summer of 1918, a house fire destroyed the manuscript of his autobiography, and other personal papers at his Lake George home. He died on 10 July 1919 at his summer home in Bolton Landing at age 89. Jacobi is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Family His first wife, Fanny Meier (1833−1856), was a sister of Sophie Meyer Boas (1828−1916), the mother of ethnologist Franz Boas, who also attended the gymnasium in Minden. In 1873, he married Mary Putnam, also a physician. She was the very first female student at the in Paris, France. They had three children, only one of whom—Marjorie—survived to adulthood. Works Contributions to Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children (with E. Noeggerath; New York, 1859) Dentition and its Derangements (1862) The Raising and Education of Abandoned Children in Europe (1870) Infant Diet (1874) Treatise on Diphtheria (1880) Jacobi contributed chapters on the care and nutrition of children, diphtheria, and dysentery to Gerhardt's Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten (Tübingen, 1877), and on diphtheria, rachitis, and laryngitis to Pepper's System of Practical Medicine (Philadelphia), and has published lectures and reports on midwifery and female and infantile disease, and a number of articles in medical journals. His Sarcoma of the Kidney in the Fœtus and Infant is printed in the Transactions of the International Medical Congress in Copenhagen. Legacy Abraham Jacobi and Carl Schurz Memorial Park in Bolton Landing, New York A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Jacobi Medical Center in New York City was named in his honor William Osler, founder of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said of Abraham Jacobi, "It may be said that the safety of a nation depends on the care of its infants and no one in this country has done so much for their bodily welfare as Dr. Jacobi. Had they any other language but a cry, countless thousands of colic-stricken babies...would ordain great praise to him " on 6 May 1900 (Jacobi's 70th birthday). See also Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York Notes References External links 1830 births 1919