After leaving school worked in a warehouse for two years, then spent eight years with the Crerar-Adams Company, following which he and his brother, E. R. Jacobson, became associated in a music store at Indiana Harbor.
After leaving school worked in a warehouse for two years, then spent eight years with the Crerar-Adams Company, a railway supply firm. Following that, he and his brother, Ernfrid Reinholdt Jacobson, became associated in a music store at Indiana Harbor.