When Jonathan Sober was born in 1759, in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, Richard Nathaniel Soper, was 26 and his mother, Jerusha VanRensler Webb, was 22. He married Huldah Jane Manning about 1787, in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Bennington, Vermont, United States in 1800 and Phelps, Phelps, Ontario, New York, United States in 1820. He died on 1 March 1845, in Huntsburg, Geauga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 86.
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English (Durham): nickname for a person of moderate habits, or a teetotaler, from Middle English sobre ‘sober, moderate, temperate’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
Slovenian (Šober): variant of Šobar, an occupational name for a (wood) turner, derived from German Schaber .
Slovenian (Šober): from German Schober . Compare Shober .
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