Brief Life History of Jerome Kurtz
When Jerome Kurtz Joseph was born on 6 March 1891, in Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, United States, his father, Fred Joseph, was 35 and his mother, Sophie Kurtz, was 25. He married Lyla Marie Sorensen on 18 September 1937, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 28 August 1963, in Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Sources (13)
- Jerome Joseph in household of Fred Joseph, "United States Census, 1910"
- Jerome Jay Joseph, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Jerome K Joseph, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
Spouse and Children
1891–1963 Male
1903–1983 Female
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1894 · May Day Riots of 1894
Age 3
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 5
1910 · The BSA is Made
Age 19
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Pierre, Andre, Jacques, Francois, Antoine, Emile, Michel, Serge, Solange, Marcel, Etienne, Lucien.
English, French, German, Jewish, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and African (mainly Tanzania and Nigeria): from the personal name Joseph, Hebrew Yosef ‘may He (God) add (another son)’. In medieval Europe this name was borne frequently but not exclusively by Jews; the usual medieval English vernacular form is represented by Jessup . In the Book of Genesis, Joseph is the favorite son of Jacob, who is sold into slavery by his brothers but rises to become a leading minister of the Pharoah in Egypt (Genesis 37–50). In the New Testament Joseph is the husband of the Virgin Mary, which accounts for the popularity of the personal name among Christians. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Józef, Slovenian Jožef, Assyrian/Chaldean Yosep, Yousep, Yosip, and Yousip, forms that are predominantly Arabic, such as Yusuf , Yousef , and Yousif , or Ethiopian, such as Yosef , and also patronymics, such as Polish Jozefowicz and Armenian Hovsepian . Joseph is one of the most frequent surnames in Haiti (along with Jean and Pierre ) and elsewhere in the West Indies (e.g. in Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, and Dominica). The name Joseph is also found among Christians in southern India and Indonesia, but since South Indians and Indonesians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian and Indonesian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. Compare Josef .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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