Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Switzer was born on 9 April 1812, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Switzer, was 42 and her mother, Susanna Rinehart, was 36. She married Ephraim Haines on 30 July 1840, in Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Johnsville, Frederick, Maryland, United States in 1880. She died on 5 January 1897, in Union Bridge, Carroll, Maryland, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pipe Creek Church Of The Brethren Cemetery, Union Bridge, Carroll, Maryland, United States.
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- Mary Hains in household of Daniel Wolfe, "United States Census, 1880"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Sweetser , in a spelling reflecting a false association with the English word Switzer ‘Swiss man’. The earliest record of Switzer as an English word denoting a Swiss person is from 1577. It is unlikely that this word independently gave rise to an English surname, but it was evidently used to render the German name Schweitzer , borne by some of the ‘poor Palatines’, Protestant refugees from southwestern Germany, who landed in London in 1709. From there they were shipped to the New World (especially New York) and to Ireland, where they were mostly settled in County Limerick.
Anglicized or Americanized form of German Schweitzer ‘Swiss man’ or Swiss German Schwyzer, a habitational name for someone from the city or canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. It is also found in Ireland (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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