When Clara Jacobs was born on 13 September 1890, in Lincoln, Adams, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Johann Adam Jacobs, was 45 and her mother, Ann Holmes, was 46. She had at least 2 daughters with Stephen Winslow Hewitt. She lived in Richfield, Adams, Wisconsin, United States for about 5 years and Delavan, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States in 1940. She died on 27 October 1951, in Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Central Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery, King, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Dutch, Flemish, German, English, and Jewish: patronymic from the personal name Jacob , ‘Jacob's (son)’, with genitival (or, as an English name, post-medieval excrescent) -s. This surname is also found in France (Nord, Alsace, and Lorraine). As a Jewish surname it has absorbed various other Jewish patronymics from the same personal name, as for example Jacobowitz , and in North America also cognates from other languages, for example Slovenian Jakopič (patronymic from an old variant of the personal name Jakob ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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