When Catherine Koch was born on 12 February 1839, in York, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Koch, was 31 and her mother, Anna Jennings, was 25. She married Jacob M Funk about 1853, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. She died on 15 July 1914, in Steelton, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Steelton, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Heinz, Gerhard, Wolfgang, Ernst, Florian.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German koch, German Koch ‘cook’. The name in this sense is also established in some other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Denmark.
Czech and Slovak: from Koch, a pet form of Kochan or of any other personal name beginning with Ko-.
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