When Jacob Scott Blake was born on 8 January 1901, in Grant Township, Taylor, Iowa, United States, his father, John Milton Blake, was 25 and his mother, Clara Amelia Wilson, was 19. He died in June 1966, in Bedford, Taylor, Iowa, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Bedford, Taylor, Iowa, United States.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English and Scottish (England and central Scotland): variant of Black 1, meaning ‘swarthy’ or ‘dark-haired’, from a byform of the Old English adjective blæc, blac ‘black’, with change of vowel length.
English: nickname from Middle English blak(e) (Old English blāc) ‘wan, pale, white, fair’. In Middle English the two words blac and blāc, with opposite meanings, fell together as Middle English blake. In the absence of independent evidence as to whether the person referred to was dark or fair, it is now impossible to tell which sense was originally meant.
English (Norfolk): nickname from Middle English bleik, blaik>, blek(e) (Old Norse bleikr) ‘pale or sallow’ (in complexion).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesBlake, Jacob Scott “Jake”] Bedford Times-Press Thursday June 30, 1966 p. 5 Jacob S. Blake Rites Held Wed. Funeral services for Jacob (Jake) Scott Blake, 65, lifetime Bedford resident, were …
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