When William Henry Meyer was born in March 1859, in Germany, his father, Henry Simon Meyer Sr, was 19 and his mother, Maria Louisa Schmid, was 18. He married Maria Josephine Dressman on 29 August 1882, in Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1910. He died on 20 December 1938, in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
German and Swiss German: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin maior ‘greater, superior’). This form of the surname is also established in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine); see also 3 below. Compare Maier , Mayer , Meier , and Myer .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Meyer, from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of or ‘light’ with the prefix m-. Compare Maier , Majer , Major , Mayer , Mayor , Meier , and Meir .
Dutch: variant, also Flemish and Americanized, of Meijer , a cognate of 1 above. This surname is also established in South Africa, where it was also brought from France (see 1 above).
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