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JACOBS, John. John Jacobs III, 92 of Essex, CT died peacefully at Essex Meadows on Saturday October 6, 2012 surrounded by his nine children. John "Jake" Jacobs was an entrepreneur, inventor, aviator and equestrian of distinction and a devoted husband and friend. He was born on May 30, 1920 in Marion PA the son of Dorothea Grauer Jacobs and John Jacobs Jr. He attended the Episcopal School, Middlesex School and Williams College class of '43. He joined the Army Air Corp in 1941 and earned the...