Brief Life History of Margaret J
When Margaret J Fisher was born on 30 January 1923, in Annis, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, her father, John Caton Fisher, was 45 and her mother, Joanna Austin Brown, was 37. She married Lloyd Agustus Jacobson on 3 January 1946. She lived in Swan Valley, Bonneville, Idaho, United States for about 20 years. She died on 27 December 2011, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Annis, Jefferson, Idaho, United States.
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- Margaret Jacobson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Margaret J Fisher, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Margaret J Fisher Jacobson, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1947 · The Presidential Succession Act
The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .
English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.
Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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