Jacob Davis may refer to:
- Jacob Davis (inventor) (1831–1908), Latvian-American entrepreneur
- Jacob C. Davis (1820–1883), American politician (Illinois) & criminal defendant
- Jacob E. Davis (1905–2003), American politician (Ohio)
Famous quotes containing the words jacob and/or davis:
“I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of the highest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.”
—Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910)