Jacob was born in 1907. He passed away in 1984. He worked as a farmer in his early years, and later had his own farm two miles from Hershey, NE. He farmed and also worked as a machinist's helper on the Union Pacific Railroad.
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Source Citation Year: 1930; Census Place: Birdwood, Keith, Nebraska; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0002; FHL microfilm: 2341019
Source Information Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Hershey, Lincoln, Nebraska; Roll: m-t0627-02256; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 56-20
Source Information Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
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