Alice Taylor Jacobs and her husband Horace Homer Jacobs lived at 22 Algonquin Street from about 1900 to 1920.
Alice was president of the Dorchester Woman’s Club for a number of years as well as the Thursday Morning Fortnightly Club and the Shakespeare Breakfast Club. She was described by a relative as a club woman.
Although small of stature she addressed meetings in support of war bonds in World War I, a time when women did not often speak to mixed gatherings. She was a suffragette and was the first of her generation in her family to drive a car. She was apparently a party girl, because someone at the Greenwood Methodist Church where she was a member told her she was too gay to be holy [when gay meant light-hearted]. Alice did not go to the church again.
The Dorchester historical Society has an American Red Cross medal with her name, a gift of her great-nephew Rev. Philip Jacobs of Trinity Episcopal Church in Canton.
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No. 12474 American Red Cross medal
Alice (June 23, 1864 – May 19, 1943) is buried in Springfield Cemetery in the Jacobs family plot along with her husband Horace H. Jacobs (1860-1937)