Brief Life History of Jacob Richard
When Jacob Richard Cripe was born on 7 February 1847, in Clinton Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States, his father, Benjamin C Cripe, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Dell, was 28. He married Barbara Alice Nusbaum on 1 March 1874, in Elkhart, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 9 September 1937, in Elkhart, Indiana, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States.
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- Jacob R Cripe, "United States Census, 1930"
- Jacob R Cripe, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Jacob R Cripe, "Find A Grave Index"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Greib, which is probably a variant of Grieb , and in some cases possibly also of Kreipe, a topographic name of uncertain origin.
Possibly also English: variant of Crippe, from Middle English crippe ‘pouch’, either an occupational name for a maker of pouches or a nickname for someone who habitually wore a distinctive pouch.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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