1. Jacob Nolde was an American industrialist and environmentalist who was largely responsible for the creation of Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center, a Pennsylvania state park in Berks County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
25 Facts About Jacob Nolde
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Jacob Nolde was born in 1859 in Berleburg, Kingdom of Prussia.
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Jacob Nolde arrived on a steamship in 1880 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Jacob Nolde was drawn to the German speaking communities of southeastern Pennsylvania and quickly found employment as a weaver for the Louis Kraemer Woolen Mills near Reading.
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Jacob Nolde soon rose to the top of the corporate ladder at Kraemer Mills, from there he was able to acquire much of the machinery that Kraemer Mills had used in their hosiery business.
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Jacob Nolde established his own hosiery factory in Reading in 1888, just eight years after leaving Germany.
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Jacob Nolde had situated himself to become one of the leading citizens of Reading.
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Jacob Nolde married women who happened to be the sisters of his partners, Jacob Lorah and George Horst.
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Jacob Nolde married his first wife, Lydia Lorah, in 1889.
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Jacob Nolde then married Anna Louise Horst in 1893, and she bore four children: George, Carol, Hans, and Louise.
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Jacob Nolde then set out to better the life of his family by creating a forest near their new home, "Sheerlund", which he built south of Reading in Cumru Township.
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When Jacob Nolde purchased the land, a single white pine was growing there.
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The massive white pine is surrounded by a forest of Douglas fir and Norway spruce trees that were planted under Jacob Nolde and later, the supervision of Austrian born forester William Kohout.
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Jacob Nolde dreamt that his forest would resemble the coniferous forests of his native Westphalia.
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Jacob Nolde bought about 500 acres of future timberland in Cumru Township in 1904 and continued to acquire the land that would become Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center until his death in 1916.
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Jacob Nolde hired William Kohout as head forester, and Kohout hired a contractor to build roads and trails to the forest to help prevent and fight forest fires.
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However, the Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center is not the only lasting mark that Jacob Nolde left before his unexpected death in 1916.
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Jacob Nolde was one of the most ready men to help any good cause.
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Mr Jacob Nolde has been called frequently the father of the Berks County Conservation Association.
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Jacob Nolde was one of the chief instruments in forming it and gave valuable assistance in many ways.
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Jacob Nolde was a member of the American Forestry Association.
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Jacob Nolde donated $15,000 to Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania to build a gymnasium there to honor his son Carl, who had died while he was a student at the academy.
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Jacob Nolde Forest was acquired by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the late 1960s.
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Jacob Nolde was a pioneering environmentalist whose work lives on today at Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center.
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Jacob Nolde Forest stays busy offering hands on opportunities to these students and their teachers with a "discovery and problem solving" approach.