Walton dropped out of school in 8th grade. He raced Harley and Indian motorcycles on Sundays (shocking his Lutheran mother), but he won money for his mother and young sister to live on. He worked in a bicycle shop. He also tested Johnson auto chassis (when the company was making autos- they primarily made farm equipment.). He then studied metalurgy and engineering at Fenn State in Cleveland (now Cleveland State College).
Obituary
Name: Jacobsen, H. Walton
Date: Feb 21 1960
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
Notes: H. Walton Jacobsen, a retired design engineer for the miniature lamp department of the General Electric Co, here, died yesterday in Huron Road Hospital. He was 66. Mr. Jacobsen was primarily responsible for the design and production of the first sealed beam headlights for automobiles. He retired June 1, 1958 after 35 years service with GE. Born in Racine, Wis., Mr. Jacobsen served 19 months with Battery C of the 32nd Field Artillery Division in France during World War I. He is survived by his wife Marion B.; two daughters, Mrs. Jean Marie Davis of Burbank, Calif. and Mrs. Dorothy Anne Uphoff of Bainbridge, O., a brother, Albert E. of Long Beach, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Laura J. Haas of Racine, Wis., and Mrs. Emma Rhodes of Neptune, N. J., and six grandchildren. Friends may call at the Charles Melbourne & Sons funeral home, 12737 Euclid Avenue, East Cleveland. Services conducted by Rev. Canon William D. Shivley of Trinity Cathedral. Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 2 p. m.
Walton dropped out of school in 8th grade. He raced Harley and Indian motorcycles on Sundays (shocking his Lutheran mother), but he won money for his mother and young sister to live on. He worked in a bicycle shop. He also tested Johnson auto chassis (when the company was making autos- they primarily made farm equipment.). He then studied metalurgy and engineering at Fenn State in Cleveland (now Cleveland State College).
Obituary
Name: Jacobsen, H. Walton
Date: Feb 21 1960
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
Notes: H. Walton Jacobsen, a retired design engineer for the miniature lamp department of the General Electric Co, here, died yesterday in Huron Road Hospital. He was 66. Mr. Jacobsen was primarily responsible for the design and production of the first sealed beam headlights for automobiles. He retired June 1, 1958 after 35 years service with GE. Born in Racine, Wis., Mr. Jacobsen served 19 months with Battery C of the 32nd Field Artillery Division in France during World War I. He is survived by his wife Marion B.; two daughters, Mrs. Jean Marie Davis of Burbank, Calif. and Mrs. Dorothy Anne Uphoff of Bainbridge, O., a brother, Albert E. of Long Beach, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Laura J. Haas of Racine, Wis., and Mrs. Emma Rhodes of Neptune, N. J., and six grandchildren. Friends may call at the Charles Melbourne & Sons funeral home, 12737 Euclid Avenue, East Cleveland. Services conducted by Rev. Canon William D. Shivley of Trinity Cathedral. Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 2 p. m.
Family Members
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Hulda Louise Jacobsen Tallman
1863–1898
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Julie Jacobsen Brown
1877–1954
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Olga Jacobsen Bell
1879–1922
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Carrie Amelia Jacobsen
1879–1884
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Carl Arthur Jacobson
1884–1941
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Emma Alice Jacobson Rhodes
1886–1971
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Anne "Frankie" Jacobsen Petersen
1888–1912
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Albert Edwin Jacobson
1890–1977
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Laura Beatrice Jacobsen Haas
1897–1984
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Frank Jacobsen
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Wallace Jacobsen
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