Brief Life History of Walter Raymond
When Walter Raymond Jacobs Sr was born on 29 January 1904, in Hazleton, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Elmer Jacobs, was 24 and his mother, Grace McLaughlin, was 20. He had at least 1 daughter with Emma Getze. He lived in Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Schodack, Rensselaer, New York, United States in 1950. He died on 15 June 1963, in New York, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Nassau-Schodack Cemetery, Nassau, Rensselaer, New York, United States.
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- Walter R Jacobs, "United States Census, 1950"
- Walter R Jacobs, "United States Census, 1940"
- Walter Jacobes in household of John E Jacobes, "United States Census, 1920"
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World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
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 ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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