When Henry Jacobs was born on 14 July 1788, in Guilford, Windham, Vermont, United States, his father, Stephen Jacobs, was 25 and his mother, Hannah Rebecca Bailey, was 20. He married Maryette Polly Udall on 10 January 1811, in Ontario, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 15 October 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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Dutch, Flemish, German, English, and Jewish: patronymic from the personal name Jacob , ‘Jacob's (son)’, with genitival (or, as an English name, post-medieval excrescent) -s. This surname is also found in France (Nord, Alsace, and Lorraine). As a Jewish surname it has absorbed various other Jewish patronymics from the same personal name, as for example Jacobowitz , and in North America also cognates from other languages, for example Slovenian Jakopič (patronymic from an old variant of the personal name Jakob ).
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