Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1697
Today’s illustration is a photo of an American Red Cross medal with the name Alice Taylor Jacobs on the back and Dorchester Branch ARC on the front.
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.
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)
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