Editing John Jacobs (section)

=== Abandoning Cedar City for Central Utah  ===

In 1858, the Jacobs family returned to the village of Lehi at the northern end of Utah Lake in Utah County and resettled there. Following the municipal elections in Lehi, John Jacobs was appointed a city policeman. At different times, he and his brother Swen were on the police force. In the mid-1860s, John Jacobs was also in the militia that patrolled and scouted during the Black Hawk War. 

In 1867, Jacob married Harriet Austin, the daughter of John Austin and Emma Grace. They had eleven children but many of them did not survive to adulthood. His last child of his second marriage was born when he was 63.