Booneville, Missouri
Booneville is a small town in central Missouri that constitutes part of the Columbia metropolitan area. The most significant event in the town's history is that it was the site of a Civil War skirmish in July 1861.
History
Booneville's name comes from two of its earliest settlers Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone, the sons of famed pioneer Daniel Boone, who established their salt business nearby in the early 1800s. Despite its small size, Booneville has been the site of numerous historical developments, from battles in the War of 1812 and the Civil War to being a stop along both the Missouri River and Santa Fe Trail.[1]
Booneville in Jewish History
The Jewish history of Booneville centers around the family of Abraham Jacobs, a German-Jewish immigrant raised in England. Jacobs first arrived in the United States in 1848 when his parents opened a cobbling business in Quincy, Illinois. Jacobs married his wife Laura, also a German-Jewish immigrant, in 1862 and the two of them had four children (all of whom were born in Illinois, except the youngest who was born in Osage Mission, Kansas). Abraham and his son Marc ran the Jacobs Brothers Dry Goods Store in Booneville for a number of years until Abraham died in 1894. Following Abraham's death, Marc and his brother David ran the store. A third son, Abraham C., worked as a dentist in Booneville.[2]