Brief Life History of Jacob Thomas
When Jacob Thomas Sherman was born on 27 January 1856, in Beaver Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Peter Sherman, was 46 and his mother, Elizabeth Swank, was 38. He married Malinda Elizabeth Swank about 1883, in Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 14 December 1937, in Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Jacob Sherman in household of Peter Sherman, "United States Census, 1870"
- Jacob Sherman, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jacob Sherman in entry for Oliver F. Hunsinger and Annie A. Sherman, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (London): occupational name denoting someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from Middle English sherman, shirman, sharman ‘shearman’.
Americanized form of North German Schürmann (see Schuermann ) and of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schermann .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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