When James Howard Jacobs was born on 11 June 1901, in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States, his father, James William Jacobs, was 26 and his mother, Mary Jane Cross, was 25. He died on 9 April 1929, in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States.
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 ).
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