Frances Wisebart Jacobs Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers Construction begins on Denver hospital inspired by Frances Wisebart Jacobs October 9, 1892 Construction on a building that was to be called the Frances Wisebart Jacobs Hospital and is now known as the National Jewish Medical and http://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/09/1892/frances-jacobs Frances Wisebart Jacobs Francis Wisebart Jacobs helped transform the fledgling state of Colorado through her organization of charities and hospitals.