Brief Life History of Jacob Job
When Jacob Job Harris was born in 1849, in Winchester, White River Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States, his father, Phineas Harris, was 24 and his mother, Esley Tizer, was 31. He married Edith Sarah Harris on 10 January 1869, in Hardin, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Hardin, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Providence Township, Hardin, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died on 29 May 1913, in New Providence, Hardin, Iowa, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in New Providence, Hardin, Iowa, United States.
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- J Harris, "United States Census, 1860"
- Job Harris, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Job Harris, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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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.
1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Hardin, Iowa, United States
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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