Solomon Jacobson was born in Mir in 1856. As a young man he left Mir and emigrated to the United States. There is indication that he was already married to Shoshana Davidson of Mir and they had a son David (born about 1889 in Mir). They settled in Des Moines, Iowa where he and his wife had a daughter, Elise. Many Jacobson cousins came to Iowa in the 1880s and later and lived in Des Moines. (See Jacobson family tree.)

Elise was born in 1888 in Des Moines and attended local schools. However, family stories say that her mother wanted to live among more observant Jews. There is indication that Elise and her older brother David returned to Mir with their mother, Shoshana Davidson Jacobson.

David Jacobson returned to the United States in 1907, at age 18. Ellis Island records indicate that he had been a clockmaker in Mir and that his mother was in Mir in 1907. In 1956 he had two children and was living in Chicago. The family has since lost touch with him and his descendents.

Elise married Reuven Garber, a Mir rabbi who had came from Semyatitsh (now Siemiatycze, Poland [52°27' 22°53'] 164.3 miles WSW of Mir). They had three children, Zelda (born about 1910), Masha and Moshe, when both Elise and Reuven died in the 1919 influenza epidemic. Shoshana Davidson Jacobson came from Iowa to take her grandchildren to America. However, the Polish government would not issue permits for the children to leave. Shoshana stayed to raise for her grandchildren. The family lived in Mir and later in Baranovich. The girls married. Both Zelda and Masha had a son who she named Reuven, after her father. Both girls, their husbands and children were murdered around 1942.

 

Moshe had joined the Polish army. He survived the war somewhere in Russia and eventually made his way to Israel. His descendents live in Israel and the United States.