William Horton JACOBSEN, Jr.

1931 - 2014  (82 years)

• Name	William Horton JACOBSEN  [1]
  Suffix	Jr.
  Born	15 Nov 1931	San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	8 Aug 2014	Reno, Washoe, NV, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I7077	Boyd
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	William Horton JACOBSEN,   b. 16 Feb 1907, Luverne, Rock, MN, USA ,   d. 26 Jan 1989, Del Mar, San Diego, CA, USA  (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Julia F. FROATZ,   b. 12 Oct 1899, , , NY, USA ,   d. 21 Jan 1989, Del Mar, San Diego, CA, USA  (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F5079	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Virginia C. CHAN
  Divorced	6 Feb 1979	, Washoe, NV, USA   [4]
  Children	+ 1. Joyce P. JACOBSEN
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2011
  Family ID	F5078	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 15 Nov 1931 - San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA Died - 8 Aug 2014 - Reno, Washoe, NV, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  William Jacobsen Jr. (1931 - 2014) William H. Jacobsen November 15, 1931 August 18, 2014 William H. Jacobsen, 82, died Aug. 18th, 2014 in Reno, NV. He was born to Cmdr. William H. Jacobsen, USN ret., and Julie Froatz Jacobsen in San Diego CA, November 15, 1931. Bill graduated from Point Loma High School, San Diego, in 1949. He graduated from Harvard University in 1953 and received his Doctoral Degree in 1964 from University of California, Berkeley. He was a professor emeritus of linguistics at University of Nevada, Reno, where he taught for thirty years, retiring in 1994. While he was fluent in many languages, including all the main Romance languages and Sanskrit, he was a specialist in Native American languages, including Washo, Makah, Salinan, Nez Perce, and Nootkan, and also worked extensively on Basque. His early fieldwork on Salinan and Washo was part of a Survey of California Indian Languages sponsored by UC Berkeley, where he received his PhD. At UC Berkeley he also worked on an early machine language translation project. Beginning with his time as an assistant professor at the University of Washington, he spent many summers in Neah Bay, WA, working with Makah elders to record their language. He wrote the definitive Grammar of the Washo Language, devised writing systems and created materials for teaching tribal members Washo and Makah, and published many papers in linguistics. He served as president of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, received the Outstanding Researcher Award from the University of Nevada and received the Nevada Humanities Award. In addition, he was an amateur magician, played the piano, attended classical concerts regularly, and loved to play miniature golf with his grandchildren. Survivors include daughter Joyce, Middletown CT, sister Julie Norman, Palo Alto CA, and grandchildren Catherine Boyd and Kenneth Boyd. Published in the Reno Gazette-Journal, Reno, Nevada, 29 August 2014. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/rgj/obituary.aspx?n=william-jacobsen&pid=172280065#sthash.eXHjdJAC.dpuf

  
  

• Sources

  [S181] California Birth Index, 1905-1995 [database on-line], (The Generations Network, Inc., 2005). [S801] New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, (ancestry.com). [S1102] William Jacobsen Jr. (1931 - 2014, (Reno Gazette-Journal). [S802] Nevada Divorce Index, 1968-2005, (The Generations Newton (Provo, UT) 2007).