User:HaroldMJacobs

Harold Milton Jacobs (1912-1995) was a prominent Brooklyn businessman and important Jewish lay leader. He was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to Kate and Max Jacobs (the founder of the Detecto Scale Company). He studied economics at St. Johns University and Columbia University in New York, and founded several successful businesses, including, Precision Metals Products, Inc. and Precisionware, Inc., and Precision Equities, Inc. At one one, Precisionware was the second largest manufacturer of wooden kitchen cabinets in the United States.