When Fred Jacobs was born on 18 August 1882, in New York, United States, his father, Solomon Jacobs, was 30 and his mother, Sara Herrmann Jacobs, was 34. He married Sadie Berkowitz on 21 October 1906. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1930 and Hillside, Union, New Jersey, United States in 1950. He died on 22 December 1957, in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.
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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