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Jacob Riis came from a fairly big family, he had fourteen brothers and sisters. only jacob and two of is sisters survived into the twentieth century. Jacob's father had a great deal of influence over him, his dad is the one who pushed him to read and to improve his english. Jacob's concern for the poor started when he was around the age of eleven when he took all he money he had and donated it to less fortunate family living in an extreamly dirty and unpleasant house. when Jacob 19 he emigrated to the united states after his marriage proposal was rejected by Elisabeth Gjortz. By the time Jacob reached america the year was 1870 and he was a twenty- one year old aspirating carpenter looking for a job. After a week or so, Jacob found a job as a carpenter at Brady's Bend Iron. After a few days of that he went and got a job mining because it paid more, but he quickly returned to carpentry. he kept trying to get into the army but they kept denying him. he was out of a job and survived on scrounging food slept in a stinky police lodging-house and at one point the only friend he had was a stray dog. he left New York, buying aticket on a ferry with the By doing little jobs here and there and train hopping, Jacob eventually made his was to Philadelphia, where he asked the Danish council, Ferdinand Myhlertz, for help. Ferdinand and his wife took care of Jacob for two weeks before Ferdinand sent Jacob to one of his friends dressed in a suit to get a job as a carpenter. Jacob finally built enough financial security doing carpentering and a variety of other jobs to experiment as a writer.