Brief Life History of Dorothy May
When Dorothy May Jacobs was born on 16 February 1899, in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Charles I Jacobs, was 27 and her mother, Emma Malinda Ramer, was 19. She lived in United States for about 30 years. She died on 5 April 1957, in Abington Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 58.
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- Dorothy M Witherow in household of Robert J Witherow, "United States Census, 1930"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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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