Brief Life History of Aaron Carl
When Aaron Carl Jacobson Jr was born on 12 March 1878, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Aaron Carl Jacobson Sr, was 27 and his mother, Carolina Christina Carlson, was 35. He married Melva Estella Cherry on 29 October 1902, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 24 November 1918, in Rockland, Power, Idaho, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Carl L Jacobson in household of Cal P Jacobson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Utah, Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1908
- Aaron C. Jacobson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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