Brief Life History of David Jacob
When David Jacob Eisenhower was born on 23 September 1863, in Elizabethville, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jacob Frederick Eisenhower, was 37 and his mother, Margareta Rebecca Matter, was 38. He married Ida Elizabeth Stover in 1885. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Logan Township, Dickinson, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 10 March 1942, in Abilene, Dickinson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Abilene Cemetery, Abilene, Dickinson, Kansas, United States.
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- David J Eisenhower, "Kansas State Census, 1925"
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- David Jacob Eisenhower, "Find A Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Eisenhauer .
History: Hans Nikolaus Eisenhauer, the ancestor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the US, was born c. 1691 in Eiterbach in southern Odenwald, a part of the former Electorate of the Palatinate, in what is now Hesse. In 1741, at the age of 50, he sailed with his wife and children from Rotterdam to America and settled in Lebanon County, PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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