IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES BERNHARD M. JACOBSEN, CLINTON. - Representative in Congress for the second congressional district, was born in Germany March 26, 1862, coming with his parents to Clinton, Iowa, when he was fourteen years of age. At the age of twenty-three he embarked in the mercantile business in which he was continuously engaged until 1926 when he closed this out and in 1927 organized the Clinton Thrift Company of which he is now the head. Served as postmaster of Clinton from 1914 to 1923. Married, May 28th, 1885, to Miss Lena Trager of Clinton, and has five children, William S., Alma, Alvina, Marvin J. and Bernice. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of Odd Fellows, Elks, Eagles, and Turner Society, Rotary, Kiwanis and Wapsipinicon clubs. Member of Lutheran church. Elected to seventy-second congress November, 1930, and re-elected to the seventy-third congress November, 1932. A democrat. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/) IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)