Jacob Broughton Nelson
Jacob Broughton Nelson (July 30, 1898 – after 1924) was the founder of Phi Kappa (secondary), Phi Kappa secondary school fraternity. In addition to being a member of the Alpha chapter at Southern University Preparatory School in Greensboro, Alabama, he helped establish three additional chapters of the fraternity. Nelson became the fraternity's first Grand Master in the spring of 1919. In later years, the Phi Kappa lost tough with Nelson. Unknown to the fraternity, Nelson was convicted of theft and served time in the South Dakota penitentiary. Early life Nelson was born on July 30, 1898, in Brundidge, Alabama.United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. via Ancestry His parents were Laura Hill (née Locke) and Jacob Boone Nelsen, a circuit preacher for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.''1900''; Census Place: ''Summerfield, ...
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Jacob Broughton Nelson 1915
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Jacob in Islam, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel (name), Israel, is regarded as a Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah, and Bethuel. According to the biblical account, he was the second-born of Isaac's children, the elder being Jacob's fraternal twin brother, Esau. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's Primogeniture, birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan, Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (Genesis), Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh), moved to Biblical Egypt, Egypt where Jacob died at the age of 147. He is su ...
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