Brief Life History of Rachel
When Rachel Jacobson was born about 1856, in London, England, her father, Jacob J Jacobsohn, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Marcuse, was 23. She married Elias Neumark on 9 March 1879, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. She lived in New York, United States in 1870 and New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1900. She died on 27 June 1919, at the age of 64, and was buried in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Rachael Jacobson in household of Jacob Jacobson, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
- Legacy NFS Source: Retschel Jacobson - birth: estimated 1856;
- Rachel Jacobson, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · Land in Groton Given to US Navy for Navy Station
In 1868, the State of Connecticut gave the Navy 112 acres of land along the Thames River. This became the location of the Naval Submarine Base. It was designed to hold 1,400 men and 20 submarines. During WWII it was expanded to 497 acres.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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