Brief Life History of Jakob
When Jakob Metzener was born on 24 June 1848, in Meiringen, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Kaspar Metzener, was 28 and his mother, Anna Maria Knodel, was 24. He married Marie Burri on 13 May 1871, in Schüpfen, Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Rapperswil, Bern, Switzerland in 1848. He died on 21 July 1915, in Coltman, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- Jacob Metzner, "United States Census, 1900"
- Birth of Jacob Metzener 24 June 1848 - Switzerland, Church Records, 1277-1992; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-PJSS-PX?cc=1640373&wc=M59L-VZ9%3A125783201%2C130154301%2C125782803%2C130171401
- Marriage of Jakob Metzener and Maria Burri 13 May 1871 - Switzerland, Church Records, 1277-1992; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-GJZT?cc=1640373&wc=M59N-823%3A125783201%2C131505101%2C125782803%2C131516901
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Historical Boundaries 1865: Called Taylor's Crossing, Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1866: Named changed to Eagle Rock, Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1885: Eagle Rock, Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States 1891: Renamed Idaho Falls, Bingham, Idaho, United States 1911: Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
German (Silesia, Saxony, Bavaria, and Austria): from Middle High German metze, a small dry-measure for grain or flour, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of measures or for a miller's assistant (who measured the quantity of flour due to the miller as payment in kind).
South German: occupational name for a butcher, from an agent derivative of Middle High German metzjen, metzigen ‘to butcher’.
German: habitational name for someone from Metzen in Lower Bavaria.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life Story of Jacob Metzener Sr. & Marie Burri
Jacob Metzener, son of Kasper Metzener and Anna Marie Knodel was born the 24 June 1848 in Seewil (Aaberg), Bern, Switzerland. Jacob was the second child in a family of eight children. His eldest br …
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