Brief Life History of Jesse Andrew
When Jesse Andrew Clausen was born on 19 July 1894, in Naper, Boyd, Nebraska, United States, his father, John Henry Clausen Jr., was 42 and his mother, Anna Moyer, was 38. He married Venice Louise Jeffords on 16 December 1921, in Butte, Boyd, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Bennett, South Dakota, United States in 1950 and Martin, South Dakota, United States in 1966. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 14 December 1970, in Merriman, Cherry, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in United States.
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- Jess Clausen, "South Dakota State Census, 1925"
- Jesse Andrew Clausen, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Jesse Clausen, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
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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.
1899
Historical Boundaries 1899: Boyd, Nebraska, United States
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Holger, Bente, Ingard, Niels, Ansgar, Astrid, Bent, Bjorn, Erik, Evald, Jorgen, Knud.
North German, Danish, and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Claus , a shortened form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas ). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variants Claussen and Klausen . Compare Clauson 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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