Timeline
- 1893: Moved with his family to Leavenworth, Kansas
- 1905: Moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri
- 19-teens: Worked as a clerk in a Kansas City clothing store
- 1917–1919: Served as enlisted man in the 129th Field Artillery, 60th Brigade, 35th Division, U.S. Army
- 1919–1922: Partnered with Harry S. Truman in the Truman & Jacobson haberdashery, 104 West 12th St., Kansas City, Missouri
- 1922–1945: Traveling salesman in the clothing business
- 1945–1955: Proprietor, Eddie Jacobson's Westport Menswear, Kansas City, Missouri
- 1947–1948: Urged President Truman to support the creation of a Jewish homeland in the British Mandate of Palestine – now Israel.
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