Grace Cottage Foundation

Dr. John Lesh Jacobs Medical Education Fund

Dr. Jacobs relaxing in his Vermont library.

In loving memory of her father, Carrie Lee Jacobs Henderson of Keene, NH, and West Townshend, VT, has established the John Lesh Jacobs Continuing Medical Education Fund for medical practitioners at Grace Cottage.

John and Marjorie Jacobs owned Taft Hill Farm on Back Windham Road in West Townshend from 1935-1993. A graduate of Oglethorpe University, Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Jacobs worked with Dr. Carl Landsteiner, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the grades of blood for transfusions. Jacobs was a professor of Bacteriology at Tufts Medical School, a medical educator, and a practicing Allergist in Atlanta. He retired to West Townshend in 1977 and died in 1998 at the age of 93.

Carrie Lee: “My father believed strongly in the development of Grace Cottage Hospital - he knew Dr. Carlos Otis well. As an educator and a practicing physician, he was committed to the need for continuing medical education. I am establishing this fund in memory of a man who believed in rural medicine, and who gave me a fine model for life.” The interest will be used to help fund Continuing Medical Education at Grace Cottage.