Brief Life History of Harry Jonathan
When Harry Jonathan Kolb was born on 7 July 1902, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, his father, Thomas Bird Kolb, was 37 and his mother, Theodosia Isabel Swain, was 26. He married Lura S Brown on 1 September 1921, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Altamont, Klamath, Oregon, United States in 1930 and Goose Lake, Lake, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 21 June 1980, in Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oregon, United States.
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- Harry J Kolb, "United States 1950 Census"
- Harry J Kalb, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Harry J Kolb, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
German: nickname from Middle High German kolbe ‘mace’ or ‘cudgel’, which was both a weapon and part of an official's insignia, in some cases the insignia of a jester; or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house named with this word. In Silesia the term denoted a shock of hair or a shorn head. Compare Kulp .
History: Dielman Kolb (1691–1756), a Mennonite preacher who arrived in America in 1717 and assisted Swiss and German emigration to America, was born in the Palatinate, Germany, and migrated to PA, following two of his brothers (Martin, John, and Jacob, who came to PA in 1707, and Henry, who came in 1709) who were also Mennonite preachers. Some of the family, which is probably of ultimate Swiss origin, settled in Germantown, PA. Among the Mennonites in the US the name Kolb is also commonly found in the altered forms Kulp and Culp .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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