Henry Samuel Jacobs (March 22, 1827 – September 12, 1893) was a Jamaican-American rabbi who mostly ministered in the American South and New York City.
[6] A month later, he was elected rabbi of Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalome in Richmond, Virginia.
When Columbia was burned in February 1865, he lost his earthly possessions and left for Augusta, Georgia and stayed there for a year.
After the Civil War, Shearith Israel was heavily damaged and the remaining congregants were too poor to afford repairing the building or continue holding services, leading Jacobs to resign[6] in 1866.
[6] A member of the Freemasons, he served as Chair of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana.
[4] He resigned from the Portuguese Synagogue in 1874 due to a disagreement with the community, and shortly afterwards he was elected rabbi of Shangarai Chasset.