Brief Life History of Harry Horner
When Harry Horner Jacobs was born on 20 October 1886, in Carmichaels, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Matthew Jacobs, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Sadie Horner, was 21. He married Margaret Levinia Worcester in Waynesburg, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and South Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. He died on 8 December 1950, in Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Brier Hill, Redstone Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Harry Jacobs in household of Samuel Worcester, "United States Census, 1910"
- Harry Horner Jacobs, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
- Harry H Jacobs, "Find A Grave Index"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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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