Solomon Jacobson was born in Mir around 1856. As a young man he left Mir and emigrated to the United States. He travelled on board a ship called the Lizzard from Hamburg arriving the the U.S. on the 2 day of Nov. 1884. It is likely that he was already married to Shoshana Davidson of Mir before he left. He settled in Des Moines, Iowa. Many Jacobson cousins came to Iowa in the 1880s and later and lived in Des Moines. (See Jacobson family tree.)

Solomon became a naturalized US citizen in 1890, making his wife a citizen in the process. Records of Solomon Jacobson are found in Des Moines City Directories of businesses in 1891 and 1892. Solomon died in 1895. His wife, known in Des Moines as Susie Jacobson applied for a US Passport in 1896. She took Lena (age 8) and David (age 6) to Mir.

David Jacobson returned to the United States in 1907, at age 18. Ellis Island records indicate that he had been a clockmaker in Mir and that his mother was in Mir in 1907. By 1956 he had two children and was living in Chicago. The family has since lost touch with him and his descendents.

Elise married Reuven Garber, a Mir rabbi who had came from Semyatitsh (now Siemiatycze, Poland [52°27' 22°53'] 164.3 miles WSW of Mir). They had three children, Zelda (born about 1910), Masha and Moshe. Both Elise and Reuven died in the 1919 influenza epidemic. According to the family story, Shoshana Davidson Jacobson wanted to take her grandchildren to America. However, the Polish government would not issue permits for the children to leave. Shoshana stayed to raise for her grandchildren. The family lived in Mir and later in Baranovich. The girls married. Both Zelda and Masha had sons who they named after their father. Both girls, their husbands and children were murdered around 1942.

Moshe had joined the Polish army. He survived the war somewhere in Russia and eventually made his way to Israel. His children live in Israel. His grandchildren are in Israel and the United States.