Brief Life History of Charlotte Elizabetha
When Charlotte Elizabetha Schwinn was born on 5 December 1855, in Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Johann Leonhard Schwinn, was 29 and her mother, Charlotte Faulhaber, was 27. She married Charles F Schmidt about 1876. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Shaler Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and West View, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. She died on 7 January 1922, in Sharpsburg, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Glenshaw, Shaler Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Charlotta Schwinn in household of Leon Schwinn, "United States Census, 1860"
- Charlotte Elizabetha Schwind (born 1855), "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
- Charlotte E. Schmidt, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
German: possibly a shortened form of Schwind .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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