Brief Life History of Michael
When Michael Horner was born on 28 February 1807, in Jenner Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel Solomon Horner, was 23 and his mother, Magdalene Kimmel, was 19. He had at least 6 sons and 4 daughters with Margaret Rebecca Lohr. He lived in Shade Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Stonycreek Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 16 May 1871, in Jenner Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Shade Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Michael Horner, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Michael Horner - Published information: birth-name: Michael Horner
- Michael Horner, "Find A Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
English (North Yorkshire) and German: from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; used either as an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn (Middle English hornere), a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land. In the Middle Ages whole horns were used for many purposes: as drinking vessels, as containers, as wind instruments for sounding an alarm and for signalling to others (e.g. when hunting). Pieces of horn were used to make spoons, buttons, combs, handles, decorative tips for rods, and other things. The horner's craft could include making musical horns as well as sheets of translucent horn for windows and for covering books. For example, Thomas Hornar of Petergate in York was paid for ‘hornyng et naillyng’ the superscribed covers of books in York Minster library in 1421.
German (also Hörner): from any of various places called Horn, referring to their location at a spur of land, at a horn shaped piece of land.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn 5.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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