Brief Life History of James Edgar
When James Edgar Jerman was born on 13 October 1885, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Daniel Smith Jerman, was 41 and his mother, Susannah Maria Egbert, was 37. He lived in Gentile Valley, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Grace, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1920. He died on 29 April 1923, in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Grace Cemetery, Caribou, Idaho, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Edward German in household of Daniel German, "United States Census, 1900"
- James Edgar Jerman, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- James E. Jerman, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1889
Historic Boundaries 1889: Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Bingham, Idaho, United States 1893: Bannock, Idaho, United States 1948: Caribou, Idaho, United States
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.
Name Meaning
Slovenian and Croatian: from an old variant of the personal name Herman , or German , or Jurman . Alternatively, it may be derived directly from Latin germanus ‘brother, cousin’, originally ‘of the same stock’ (see Germain ). Compare Yerman .
English (of Norman origin): variant of German .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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