Jacob G. Francis

Jacob Gottwals Francis, also known as J.G. or Jay G. was an American author, a historian, a photographer, and a Church of the Brethren minister.

Francis was born in Oaks, Pennsylvania to John Umstead and Mary Jane Francis . In 1891, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ursinus College. He is credited with helping to found Elizabethtown College in 1899 located in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Francis, however, preferred other sites to Elizabethtown, and thus saw himself as the instigator of the college, rather than its founder, believing that the location of the college in Elizabethtown was in violation of Brethren principles. In 1895, he was named minister of the Green Tree Church of the Brethren in Oaks, Pennsylvania.. He was known for travelling throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey on a bicycle.

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