When Jacob Howe Swan was born on 29 March 1816, in Bethel, Bethel, Oxford, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William David Swan, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Howe, was 23. He married Eunice Anderson Frost on 18 December 1844. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States in 1816. He died on 2 May 1895, in Brownfield, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Holt Cemetery, Denmark, Oxford, Maine, United States.
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English: occupational name from Middle English swon(e), northern Middle English swan(e) ‘swineherd; peasant; male servant’ (Old English swān). Compare Swain 2, with which this name was thoroughly confused.
English: occasionally perhaps a nickname from Middle English swan, swon ‘swan’. In the Middle Ages, the swan was taken as a symbol of false pride, and, according to Chaucer, jealousy. Compare Kite , Nightingale , and Pye .
English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Swan, an Anglicized form of Old Norse Sveinn. Compare Swain 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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