Brief Life History of Caroline
When Caroline Jacobson was born on 7 April 1858, in Valsted, Nibe, Nordjylland, Denmark, her father, Mads Andersen Jacobsen, was 52 and her mother, Elsie Marie Larsdatter, was 33. She married Charles Monk about 1881, in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She immigrated to United States in 1870 and lived in Sebber, Slet, Ålborg, Denmark in 1860 and Mount Pleasant Election Precinct, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 22 October 1933, in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Caroline Jacobsen Rasmussen in household of Mary A Smith Rasmussen, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Caroline Jacobsen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Caroline Rasmussen, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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World Events (8)
1859 · Copenhagen Waterworks
The Copenhagen Waterworks was the first waterworks in Denmark and served the community until 1951. It was one of the first buildings to be built outside Copenhagen's old city walls.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English, Swedish, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Jacob denoting ‘Jacob's son’. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, including Scandinavian (see 2 below) and, in some cases, Croatian Jakobović (which is from the personal name Jakob ).
Americanized form of Swedish Jacobsson or Jakobsson and Danish, Norwegian, North German, or Dutch Jacobsen or Jakobsen , all cognates of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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