Family
His first wife, Fanny Meyer Jacobi (1833−1851), was a sister of Sophie Meyer Boas (1828−1916), the mother of ethnologist Franz Boas, who also attended the gymnasium in Minden. In 1873, he married Mary Putnam Jacobi, also a physician. She was the first woman student at Faculté de Médecine de Paris in Paris, France. They had three children, one of whom, Marjorie McAneny, survived to adulthood.
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