{"id":1317,"date":"2017-12-15T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2018-01-26T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T04:04:13","slug":"st-jacob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/st-jacob\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Jacob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Jacob is a township and village in Madison County. The township was first settled by Americans in 1810, and in the early 1850s the village of St. Jacob began as a group of houses and establishments built at a crossroads. The town was given its name for three prominent residents with the name Jacob: Jacob Schultz who built the first house in the area and sold whisky by the barrel; Jacob Schroth who operated a store, saloon, and tavern called the St. Jacob House; and Jacob Willi, a farmer and blacksmith. Louis Schiele laid out the town in 1866.((W. T. Norton, ed.,<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idaillinois.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/edpl\/id\/11892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois, and Its People, 1812 to 1912<\/a>. <\/em>(Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), 597 and 599.)) The village of St. Jacob was incorporated September 8, 1875.((Flagg, James S., editor,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/our150years1812100flag#page\/60\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our 150 Years, 1812-1962<\/a><\/em>. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61.)) By 1880, the village of St. Jacob had a population of 461.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1883\/dec\/vol-01-population.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883), 139.)) As of the 2010 census, the village of St. Jacob as a population of 1,098.((<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/cph-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing<\/a> <\/em>(Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 64))<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/St. Jacob.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-473 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/St._Jacob.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Jacob in 2017<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.madison.il.us\/departments\/information_technology\/geographic_spatial_data.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maps &amp; Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To access the village of St. Jacob\u2019s\u00a0website,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjacobil.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Jacob is a township and village in Madison County. The township was first settled by Americans in 1810, and in the early 1850s the village of St. Jacob began as a group of houses and establishments built at a crossroads. The town was given its name for three prominent residents with the name Jacob: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"community.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}