When Jacobs was born about 1890, in Hibbard, Madison, Idaho, United States, his father, Joseph Ezekiel Jacobs, was 33 and his mother, Emily Susannah Lutz, was 30. He died on 1 September 1890, in his hometown, at the age of 1.
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Idaho is the 43rd state.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Dutch, Flemish, German, English, and Jewish: patronymic from the personal name Jacob , ‘Jacob's (son)’, with genitival (or, as an English name, post-medieval excrescent) -s. This surname is also found in France (Nord, Alsace, and Lorraine). As a Jewish surname it has absorbed various other Jewish patronymics from the same personal name, as for example Jacobowitz , and in North America also cognates from other languages, for example Slovenian Jakopič (patronymic from an old variant of the personal name Jakob ).
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