Brief Life History of Charles F
When Charles F Schmidt was born on 28 November 1852, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Schmidt, was 27 and his mother, Margarete, was 24. He married Charlotte Elizabetha Schwinn about 1876. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Allegheny Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Shaler Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 5 February 1918, in Millvale, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Glenshaw, Shaler Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Charles F Schneider, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charles F Schmidt - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Charles F Schmidt
- Charles F. Schmidt, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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