When Phillip Kraft was born on 4 February 1840, in Hahn bei Pfungstadt, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, his father, Philipp Kraft, was 41 and his mother, Barbara Schmitt, was 33. He married Dorothea Sinner on 26 December 1866, in Germany. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Saunemin, Livingston, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Hersey Township, Nobles, Minnesota, United States for about 20 years. He died on 25 April 1927, in Brewster, Nobles, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Trinity Cemetery, Brewster, Nobles, Minnesota, United States.
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German (also Kräft), Danish, Swedish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a strong man, from Old High German kraft, German Kraft ‘strength, power’. The Swedish name probably originated as a soldier's name. In part, the German and Danish names possibly also derive from a late survival of the same word used as a byname, Old High German Chraft(o), Old Norse Kraptr. See also Craft and Croft .
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