Brief Life History of Jacob Stephen
When Jacob Stephen Chipman was born on 23 August 1894, in Lake City, Calhoun, Iowa, United States, his father, Amani Abraham Chipman, was 27 and his mother, Florence Ellen Ginther, was 22. He married Velma Grace Johnson on 24 June 1931, in Stanford, Judith Basin, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana, United States in 1940 and Fergus, Montana, United States in 1973. He died on 26 March 1973, in Cascade, Montana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana, United States.
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- Jacob S Chipman, "United States Census, 1940"
- Jacob Stephen Chipman, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Jacob S. Chipman, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1913
Historical Boundaries 1913: Fergus, Montana, United States
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English chipman (Old English cȳp(e)mann), a side form of chapman, chepman ‘merchant, trader’; see Chapman , with which this name was interchangeable.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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