Solomon Jacobson was born in Mir around 1856. As a young man he left Mir and emigrated to the United States. He travelled on a ship called the Lizzard from Hamburg arriving the the U.S. on the 2nd day of November in 1884. It is likely that he was already married to Shoshana Davidson of Mir before he left home. 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 and children citizens in the process. Records of Solomon Jacobson are found in Des Moines City Directories of Businesses in 1891 and 1892. Solomon died in 1895 and was buried in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines Iowa. 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 live in Mir.

David Jacobson returned to the United States in 1907, at age 18. Two Ellis Island manifests indicate that he had been a clockmaker in Mir and that his mother was in Mir in 1907. He made contact with his cousin Joseph Jacobson, who was living in Brooklyn and had a fur business in New York City. David went on to Des Moines, Iowa. Some time later, he married, served in WWI and moved to Chicago. His family lost contact with other Jacobson relatives until 2014.

Elise Jacobson 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 may have died in the 1919 influenza epidemic.

According to the family story, Shoshana Davidson Jacobson wanted to take her grandchildren to America after WWI. However, the Polish government would not issue permits for the children to leave with their grandmother. Shoshana stayed to raise for her grandchildren. The family lived in Mir and later in Baranovich. The girls married. Either Zelda or Masha had a son who was 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.