Thornwell Jacobs

rdf:langString Thornwell Jacobs

rdf:langString Thornwell Jacobs

rdf:langString Thornwell Jacobs

rdf:langString Jacobs sealing the last object holder to go into the Crypt of Civilization

rdf:langString educator, "time capsule"

rdf:langString Presbyterian minister, author, educator, business executive

rdf:langString Mary Jane

rdf:langString William Plumer Jacobs

rdf:langString 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.