Brief Life History of Jasper Newton
When Jasper Newton Summers was born on 10 September 1855, in Indiana, United States, his father, Golvin Summers II, was 25 and his mother, Sarah Jane Trusler, was 23. He married Susannah Fulton on 17 November 1882, in Huntington, Huntington Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States. He lived in Union Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States in 1870 and Rock Creek Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. He died on 5 March 1937, at the age of 81, and was buried in Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States.
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- Jasper Summers, "United States Census, 1920"
- Jasper N Summers, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Jasper Newton Summers, "Find A Grave Index"
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1856 · The Town of Santa Claus
The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Summer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: occupational or topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the house of someone named Somer (see Summer ).
Irish (Sligo): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Somacháin ‘descendant of Somachán’, a personal name meaning ‘soft, gentle, innocent’, due to confusion with samhradh ‘summer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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