He was proud of his paternal ancestor, a Franco-Swiss immigrant Jacob Trumbo ( likely anglicized spelling ), who settled in the colony of Virginia in 1736.

In this story, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, Col. John Jacob Lehmanowsky, settled in Indiana later in life and gave lectures on the " Wars of Europe " in which he extolled the virtues of the hussars, which his audience heard as " hoosiers ".

Jacob then settled in Migdal Eder, where his firstborn, Reuben, slept with Rachel's servant Bilhah ; Jacob's response was not given at the time, but he did condemn Reuben for it later, in his deathbed blessing.

Jacob Kintner settled near Corydon in about 1810.

The site of Lawrenceburg was settled in the early 1780s by a German immigrant named Jacob Kaufman and was first called Kaufman's ( or Coffman's ) Station.

In 1787, Abijah Gilbert and Jacob Morris, early owners of land in the county, were among the first who settled the town, Morris giving Gilbert land of his choice as payment for his services.

Another early settler was Jacob Haviland, who settled Haviland Hollow in 1731.

The area was first settled by Captain Jacob Conklin after he was given a tract of land in what is now Wheatley Heights by his father, Timothy Conklin, about 1706.

The village is often said to have had its beginnings as early as 1811, because land which was settled by pioneer Jacob Shupe, about a mile north of the original village site, was eventually ( at a much later time ) included into the Amherst city-limits.

Originally known as Ferndale, the town was located on tracts of land originally settled by Giles Windsor ( 1767 ), Stephen Snyder ( 1786 ) and Jacob Yundt ( 1826 ).

The Sterne Fountain was given to the city in 1913 to honor the contribution of Jacob and Ernestine Sterne, a Jewish couple who settled in Jefferson before the Civil War and became prominent citizens who managed the post office and were involved in numerous civic and cultural projects.

After the death of Tar-de-blu the estate was settled in 1909 leaving Chief Jacob the son of Tar-de-blu as sole heir.

Harrington was first settled in 1879 by Adam and Jacob Ludy.

The area was first settled in 1819 by the Jacob Smith Moody family from Keene, New Hampshire.

The site was first settled by an Irishman named Jacob Story in 1756.

The White-winged Chough was first described by French naturalist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1817 as Coracia melanorhamphos, other names given include Pyrrhocorax leucopterus by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1820, and Corcorax australis by French naturalist René-Primevère Lesson in 1830. before the current name was settled by Gregory Mathews in 1912.

According to the book, Roadside History of Arizona, by Marshall Trimble, " Mingus Mountain was named for Joseph and Jacob Mingus, two brothers who settled in the area in the 1880s and later operated a sawmill near the base of the mountain ".

An impending war was settled when Olof agreed to share his power with his son Anund Jacob.

It was settled in 1766 by Jacob Eaton and Colonel Ebenezer Smith, then regranted in 1768 by Governor John Wentworth and named after Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet, a member of Parliament who opposed taxation on the colonies.

William Penn, having experienced religious persecution as a Quaker, offered asylum to others who were suffering religious persecution, an offer that many followers of Jacob Ammann accepted, starting with the Detweiler and Sieber families, who settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1736.

However, Biblical scholars believe this to actually be a description of the tribe of Naphtali, particularly since some textual scholars regard the Blessing of Jacob as having been written long after the tribe settled permanently in Canaan.

While Abraham and Jacob died in their home town in 1604, Adam is supposed to have settled in the Harz mountains.

A Jacob Lawrence retrospective in 1974 honored a giant of African American art who had settled in Seattle four years earlier.

He was the son of Jacob Boehm and Barbara Kendig who settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Washington left with a small party, picking up along the way Jacob Van Braam as an interpreter ; Christopher Gist, a company surveyor working in the area ; and a few Mingo led by Tanaghrisson.

* 1972 – Jacob Bekenstein suggests that black holes have an entropy proportional to their surface area.

* 1972 — Jacob Bekenstein suggests that black holes have an entropy proportional to their surface area due to information loss effects

If approved, the area bounded by Auburn Boulevard on the north, the American River Drive, Ethan Way on the west, and Mission Avenue / Jacob Lane on the east would have become the City of Arden-Arcade.

The first European settler arriving in the area was Jacob Carpenter, who came to the Chicago area from Logan County, Ohio in November 1832.

Rossville and Ross Township were named after Jacob Ross, a settler in the area.

The community and lake was built by land developer James Jacob Rupel, who was active in the Greater Dayton area and Indiana for over 50 years and the former owner of Centre City Building and the Carillon House in Downtown Dayton.

Over 4, 000 persons are buried here, including many area Civil War veterans, including Thomas J. Cartwright, Enoch B. Hartley, Aaron W. Letts, Simon P. Morrow, Albert Pugh, Stephen B. H. Shanks, Aaron L. Somers, Jacob Walker, and Morris C. Ward.

When Jacob Munster, a young man from the Netherlands who until the 1860s spelled his surname " Monster ," opened an area General Store complete with a U. S. postal station on the back, the local farmers and settlers came to rely on the postal station, which soon became a United States Post Office.

A five-foot bed of coal was exposed along North Cedar Creek about 2 miles north of Marysville, and by 1867, several coal banks were open in the Marysville area and Jacob Kline had opened a mine about a mile north of Marysville, where the coal was 10 feet thick.

When Madden moved away, the area became known as Connersville in 1828, for Jacob Conner, a settler who assumed responsibility for the growing town.

The area is known for its historic summer resorts, such as Wequetonsing, which was founded by Illinois businessmen and lawyers Henry Stryker, III, and Henry Brigham McClure, both of whom were interconnected with the Jacob Bunn industrial dynasty of Illinois.

Jacob Showerman had been to the area in 1836 looking for land and found only Jones in section 1.

The first mention of this village is from 823, when it is thought that Lord Jacob van den Woude was granted the area as a fiefdom from Louis the Pious.

Jacob Fisler, who purchased much of the area that is now Clayton, established a community called Fislertown in 1850 that grew substantially after he opened a glass factory.

Brass Castle is named for Jacob Brass, an early settler of the area

The area has been visited by actor Alan Alda, Sen. Jacob Javits, Sen. Robert Kennedy, singer Ethel Merman, actor Donald O ' Connor, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller.

In 1748, Adam's son, Jacob, built a grist mill, one of the first industries in the wilderness area.

Shortly after other men started settling in the area ( according the Delaware Historical Society )- Moses Byxbe, William Little, Solomon Smith, and Elder Jacob Drake, Thomas Butler, and Ira Carpenter began building in the area.

One of Jacob Ridgway's nephews, James Gillis, convinced Ridgway that the area could become a very lucrative spot for a lumber camp due to the proximity of Elk Creek and the Clarion River.

Jacob Lamb, formerly of Milton was the first documented settler to the area.

Jacob Lamb also constructed the first saw and gristmills in the area.