Brief Life History of Johann Adam Valentin
When Johann Adam Valentin Schmidt was born on 26 September 1863, in Germany, his father, Emil August Balthasar Schmidt, was 25 and his mother, Victoria Colloseus, was 22. He married Johanna Meixner on 28 November 1891, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 26 October 1952, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 89.
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- J A V Schmidt, "United States Census, 1930"
- Johann Adam Valentin Schmidt, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
- J A Valentin Schmidt, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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World Events (8)
1864
War: Prussia and Austria vs. Denmark.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1890
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Gerhard, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Manfred, Wolfgang, Ewald, Gunter.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine, also Nord), the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland. It is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see below). In part, Schmidt is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
Germanized form of Czech Šmíd and Šmít, Slovenian, Croatian, and Slovak Šmid or Šmit, surnames of German origin (see above and Smid 2 and Smit 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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