When George Edward Jacobson was born on 28 August 1884, in Story City, Story, Iowa, United States, his father, Jacob H Jacobson, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Olson, was 27. He married Lena Jorgenson on 11 October 1906, in Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Franklin Township, Story, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Lafayette Township, Story, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died on 21 April 1957, at the age of 72, and was buried in Story City, Story, Iowa, United States.
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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.
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