When Jacob Forsch was born in June 1885, in Long Lake, McPherson, South Dakota, United States, his father, Jacob Forsch, was 34 and his mother, Carolina Neher, was 29. He lived in Long Lake Township, McPherson, South Dakota, United States in 1900.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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South German (also Försch):
topographic name for someone near a forest or in charge of a tree nursery, from Middle High German forst ‘forest’.
nickname from Middle High German vorsche, vorsch ‘inquiry, question’, hence for a legal or court investigator.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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