When Jacob Yost was born on 2 December 1845, in Harford, Maryland, United States, his father, Charles Kauffman Yost, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Bortner Fife, was 24. He married Frances Ann Kerlinger on 10 October 1867, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hopewell Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years and Shrewsbury, York, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 5 May 1934, in Stewartstown, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Stewartstown, York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Americanized form of German and Dutch Jost or Joost , Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, and Slovak Jošt.
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