Brief Life History of Henry Bailey
When Henry Bailey Jacobs was born on 5 May 1817, in Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, United States, his father, Henry Jacobs, was 28 and his mother, Maryette Polly Udall, was 26. He married Zina Diantha Huntington on 7 March 1841, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He immigrated to New York County, New York, United States in 1847 and lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1870 and Livermore, Alameda, California, United States for about 7 years. He died on 1 August 1886, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Henry B Jacobs, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Henry Bailey Jacobs - Church record: birth-name: Henry Bailey Jacobs
- Henry B. Jacobs, "Illinois, County Marriages" (Zina 1841)
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World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
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 ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Birth of Henry Chariton Jacobs
Henry Chariton Jacbos was born 22 March 1846 on the banks of the Chariton River in Lucas County, Iowa, a son of Henry Baily an Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs. At the time of Chariton's birth, Henry, …
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