American minister, author, and educator (1877–1956)
Thornwell Jacobs
Jacobs sealing the last object holder to go into the Crypt of Civilization
Born
(1877-02-15)15 February 1877
Clinton, South Carolina
Died
4 August 1956 (aged 79)
Clinton, South Carolina
Occupation(s)
Presbyterian minister, author, educator, business executive
Known for
educator, "time capsule"
Parent(s)
William Plumer Jacobs
Mary Jane (Dillard)
General James Oglethorpe
Thornwell Jacobs (February 15, 1877 – August 4, 1956) was a professor, historian, author, fundraiser, university founder, and Presbyterian minister. He earned degrees from Presbyterian College in South Carolina and the Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey. He wrote The Law of White Circle, a novel about mulattos (people of mixed white and black ancestry) set during the Atlanta race massacre of 1906.
Jacobs reestablished Oglethorpe University, becoming its president and developing intense educational programs. His motivation for this was that his grandfather attended the original college and told him of educated people that had graduated from it to become productive citizens in society. Unfortunately, it had been forced to cease functioning because of the American Civil War.
He conceived the Crypt of Civilization time capsule idea for a historic time collection of 1930s cultural objects sealed in a specially designed place on campus for people of the 82nd century to find to see how the people on Earth lived in the 20th century.
ThornwellJacobs (February 15, 1877 – August 4, 1956) was a professor, historian, author, fundraiser, university founder, and Presbyterian minister. He...
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as well as items showing the extent of scientific progress to 1939. ThornwellJacobs, the initiator of the project, was inspired by the opening of Egyptian...
rebuilding Oglethorpe was ThornwellJacobs, whose grandfather Ferdinand Jacobs had served on the faculty of Old Oglethorpe. Jacobs would serve as president...
Henley Thornwell. Dr. Jacobs went on to found Presbyterian College and his son ThornwellJacobs revitalized Oglethorpe University. Thornwell's first donation...
Clarissa Myrick Harris was produced by One World Archives and won awards. ThornwellJacobs wrote a novel, The Law of the White Circle, set during the 1906 massacre...
chancel, as before. In the 1930s, the president of Oglethorpe University ThornwellJacobs excavated the Oglethorpe family vault in the centre of the chancel...
Pendray was editor for Literary Digest when in 1936 he interviewed ThornwellJacobs, organizer of Oglethorpe University's millennia-spanning time crypt...
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by William Plumer Jacobs. He had served as the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Clinton since 1864 and founded the Thornwell Orphanage. Originally...
Retrieved 2018-03-30. Taylor, Robert Love; Moore, John Trotwood; Jacobs, Thornwell (1905). The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine. Taylor Publishing Company. "Diary...
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First, You Cry (1978) Vampire (1979) The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980) Thornwell (1981) Apollo 11 (1996) Night of the Twisters (1996) (co-production with...
2018. Retrieved July 6, 2017. "L.A. Clippers Acquire Rights To Sindarius Thornwell". NBA.com. June 22, 2017. Archived from the original on December 5, 2017...
1895-1930. Psychology Press. p. 132. ISBN 0-789-01843-8. McCaffrey, Donald W.; Jacobs, Christopher P. (1999). Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood...
No. 17 by LA Lakers". KVRR Local News. Retrieved June 29, 2024. Tobey, Jacob (January 28, 2023). "Colorado native Dalton Knecht helping lead UNC basketball"...
Phillips, Jacob. "Dutch Fork runs away from Fort Dorchester for South Carolina 5-A title". scorebooklive.com. Retrieved 19 April 2023. Phillips, Jacob (December...
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School Southern Presbyterians, which included men such as James Henley Thornwell and R.L. Dabney, formed the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States...
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