When Louisa Ann Kauffman was born on 1 September 1829, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, David Caufman, was 24 and her mother, Fanny Bushman, was 25. She married Charles Jacob Smith on 30 January 1848, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Quincy Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 26 April 1880, in Quincy, Quincy Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Quincy, Quincy Township, Franklin, 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.
Americanized form of German Kaufmann , and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname. Compare Kaufman .
History: As a name of Swiss German origin, originally spelled Kaufmann (see 1 above), the surname Kauffman is very common among the American Mennonites and Amish; variants, such as Kaufman and Coffman , are also found. The main progenitors of the Mennonite bearers of this name were of Swiss ancestry, but came to PA (Lancaster and Berks counties) from the Palatinate, Germany, in the 18th century. Later Mennonite immigrants bearing this name came to the US also from Galicia and Volhynia in Eastern Europe.
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