Dean, Theological Seminary
Centurion, 1919–1937
Born 15 December 1855 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania
Died 31 October 1937 in Hartford, Connecticut
Buried Cedar Hill Cemetery
, Hartford, Connecticut
Proposed by Wilson Farrand and John Grier Hibben
Elected 1 February 1919 at age sixty-three
Century Memorial
An out-of-town member of the Club and acting president of Hartford Seminary, Melancthon Williams Jacobus had pursued during forty years the profession of theological education. He had studied at Göttingen and Berlin, long before the German university became, under Hitler’s régime of superstition, intolerance and fanaticism, a laughing-stock for the educated world—a contemporary spectacle which, in his later years as teacher of New Testament exegesis, gave a melancholy touch to Dr. Jacobus’s reminiscence. But his own work as lecturer at Princeton, Mount Holyoke and Hartford, as author of theological commentaries, and as collaborator in his chosen field on the Standard Dictionary, made its impress on American religious thought.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1938 Century Association Yearbook
