Re: Orgin of Jahn name
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In reply to:
Re: Orgin of Jahn name
5/11/01
Thanks, Matt,
I had the impression that my great-grandfather, Christian Jahn, came from Northern Germany, but I have no idea where I got that impression. All I know is that he arrived in the U.S., in Brooklyn, in time to show up in the Brooklyn City Directory (as you know, the precursor of the phone book) in the 1880s as proprietor of the Franklin House Hotel, One Old Fulton Street, which had a bar that served the workers building the adjacent Brooklyn Bridge (1883).
Michael Jahn