Jacob Forsch

Brief Life History of Jacob

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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Family Time Line

Jacob Forsch
1851–1904
Carolina Neher
1855–1924
Carolina Forsch
1877–1943
Elisabetha Forsch
1879–
Friederica Forsch
1881–1977
Katharina Forsch
1882–1929
Jacob Forsch
1885–
John Forsch
1887–1974
Fredrich Forsch
1889–1955
Christina Forsch
1891–1979
Henry Forsch
1892–1918
Sophena Forsch
1895–1978
Martha Forsch
1898–1984

Sources (1)

  • Jacob Forsch in household of Jacob Forsch, "United States Census, 1900"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

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

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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