When Mamie Susan Schantz was born on 2 February 1899, in Telford, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Enos Franklin Schantz, was 36 and her mother, Mary Ann Fronheiser, was 36. She had at least 1 daughter with Joseph Paul Nagy. She lived in Franconia Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Quakertown, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. She died in January 1979, in Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
German: from Middle High German schanz ‘work jacket’, probably applied to someone who wore an unusual and noticeable one.
German: topographic name from Late Middle High German schanze ‘defense structure, earthwork’, earlier ‘(bundle of) brushwood’, piles of which were used to construct defense lines. The name may have been applied to someone who built or lived near such a structure.
German: nickname for a gambler, from Middle High German schanz(e) ‘game of dice, hazard’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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