When Casper Schmuck was born on 19 April 1832, in Germany, his father, Adam Schmuck, was 21 and his mother, Fredericka Christianna Lotzmann, was 22. He married Rebecca Geary in September 1854, in Saltlick Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Fayette City, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 1 September 1906, in Springfield Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
Some characteristic forenames: German Erwin, Hans, Heinz, Helmut, Hermann, Jurgen, Kurt, Mathias, Nikolaus, Reinhard.
North German: nickname from Middle Low German smuck ‘neat, dainty, pretty’.
South German: nickname from Middle High German smuc ‘embrace; ornament, finery’, also ‘jewelry’. This surname is also found in France (mainly Alsace, in any of the two possible senses; see also 1 above), Hungary, and Slovenia. In part, this is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Smuck .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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