Today in Wheeling History: September 7--Jacob Schumacher, former Wheeling resident and U.S. Consul to Haifa, died in the German Colony, Haifa, Palestine (1891).
Jacob Friedrich Schumacher was born on April 16, 1825, in Tübingen, Württemberg, Germany, the son of stonemason Carl Christoph Schumacher and his wife Marie Magdalene Sinner. After receiving confirmation in 1839, he apprenticed as a stonemason under his father and later worked as a construction manager at Tübingen's new university hospital. In the revolutionary year of 1848, he emigrated to America with his two brothers, arriving in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) through the mediation of Württemberg emigrants. In Wheeling, Schumacher's first major project was constructing a bridge over the Ohio River, and he married Wilhelmine Wörner, a native of Stuttgart.
In 1851, he moved to Zanesville, Ohio, where he married widow Julie Dietle in 1854 and had a son, Gottlieb, in 1857. Schumacher established himself as a skilled architect and sculptor, creating marble artworks and managing public and private buildings while developing religious connections with the Temple Society movement. From 1860-1865, he helped establish the Templar settlement of Maresa near Buffalo, New York, planning the community and designing houses. In 1869, he emigrated to Palestine as one of the first settlers of the German Colony in Haifa, where he became chief architect and planner of the settlement. From 1872 to 1891, he served as U.S. Consul Agent in Haifa, designing numerous structures including the English Women's Missionary Society orphanage in Nazareth. Schumacher died on September 7, 1891, in Haifa and was buried in the German Cemetery there in a grave he carved for himself and his wife.
To learn more: Jacob Schumacher – Wikipedia (https://tinyurl.com/ytt46r5v), American Consuls in the Holy Land – Ruth Kark (Jerusalem 1994) - Tempelgesellschaft history – German Templer Colonies (https://tinyurl.com/2ny2u9eu), Wuerttembergische Kirchengeschicte online (https://tinyurl.com/4ey53hmy), Off the Beaten Track in Israel (https://tinyurl.com/bddnru5), Jacob Schumacher - Find a Grave (https://tinyurl.com/47vjx4y3)
Photo credits: Württembergische Kirchengeschichte Online, Find a Grave
Jacob Friedrich Schumacher was born on April 16, 1825, in Tübingen, Württemberg, Germany, the son of stonemason Carl Christoph Schumacher and his wife Marie Magdalene Sinner. After receiving confirmation in 1839, he apprenticed as a stonemason under his father and later worked as a construction manager at Tübingen's new university hospital. In the revolutionary year of 1848, he emigrated to America with his two brothers, arriving in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) through the mediation of Württemberg emigrants. In Wheeling, Schumacher's first major project was constructing a bridge over the Ohio River, and he married Wilhelmine Wörner, a native of Stuttgart.
In 1851, he moved to Zanesville, Ohio, where he married widow Julie Dietle in 1854 and had a son, Gottlieb, in 1857. Schumacher established himself as a skilled architect and sculptor, creating marble artworks and managing public and private buildings while developing religious connections with the Temple Society movement. From 1860-1865, he helped establish the Templar settlement of Maresa near Buffalo, New York, planning the community and designing houses. In 1869, he emigrated to Palestine as one of the first settlers of the German Colony in Haifa, where he became chief architect and planner of the settlement. From 1872 to 1891, he served as U.S. Consul Agent in Haifa, designing numerous structures including the English Women's Missionary Society orphanage in Nazareth. Schumacher died on September 7, 1891, in Haifa and was buried in the German Cemetery there in a grave he carved for himself and his wife.
To learn more: Jacob Schumacher – Wikipedia (https://tinyurl.com/ytt46r5v), American Consuls in the Holy Land – Ruth Kark (Jerusalem 1994) - Tempelgesellschaft history – German Templer Colonies (https://tinyurl.com/2ny2u9eu), Wuerttembergische Kirchengeschicte online (https://tinyurl.com/4ey53hmy), Off the Beaten Track in Israel (https://tinyurl.com/bddnru5), Jacob Schumacher - Find a Grave (https://tinyurl.com/47vjx4y3)
Photo credits: Württembergische Kirchengeschichte Online, Find a Grave
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