When Jacob Calvin Croft was born on 10 May 1903, in Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States, his father, Jacob Croft, was 30 and his mother, Mary Eliason, was 28. He married Lula McClellan on 22 May 1931, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to San Francisco, California, United States in 1930. He died on 25 February 1988, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of several places, for example in Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Herefordshire, and North Yorkshire, all named with Old English croft ‘small arable enclosure (normally adjoining a house)’, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a croft, from Middle English croft.
English: possibly in some cases a variant of Craft 2.
Americanized form of German, Danish, Swedish, or Jewish Kraft . Compare Kroft and Craft .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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