When Francis Longdon Schmidt Sr was born on 20 January 1893, in Spring Garden, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Charles F Schmidt, was 40 and his mother, Charlotte Elizabetha Schwinn, was 37. He married Mary Anna Young on 11 March 1919, in Reserve Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Shaler Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 16 November 1954, in West View, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Reserve Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Gerhard, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Manfred, Wolfgang, Ewald, Gunter.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine, also Nord), the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland. It is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see below). In part, Schmidt is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
Germanized form of Czech Šmíd and Šmít, Slovenian, Croatian, and Slovak Šmid or Šmit, surnames of German origin (see above and Smid 2 and Smit 3).
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