Brief Life History of Joel
When Joel Gross was born on 15 January 1810, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Daniel Gross, was 22 and his mother, Penn. Catharina Kuntz, was 23. He married Christina Diana Fetherolf on 24 March 1844, in Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Whitehall Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 23 August 1891, at the age of 81.
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- Joel Groff, "United States Census, 1870"
- Joel Grost, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Joel Gross in entry for William C. Gross, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a big man, from Middle High German grōz ‘large, corpulent’, German gross. This surname is also established in some other parts of Europe, most notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia it is also found (in Slovenia almost exclusively) in the Slavicized form Gros (see also 3 below). The Jewish name has been Hebraicized as Gadol .
English: descriptive nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros, grosse, groce ’large; heavy’, also meaning ‘simple, plain’, from Old French gros ‘big, fat’ (from Latin grossus ‘thick’), a word of ancient Germanic origin, thus etymologically the same word as in 1 above.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian, Polish, Croatian or other Slavic Gros , itself of German origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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