When Eldredge Schneider was born on 27 November 1864, in Zell, Zürich, Switzerland, his father, Johann Rudolph Schneider, was 30 and his mother, Anna Margaretha Zehnder, was 30. He married Deliliah Jeanettie Minnie Francom on 30 June 1900, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 27 December 1903, in Bisbee, Cochise, Arizona, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Bisbee, Cochise, Arizona, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
Historical Boundaries 1880: Pima, Arizona Territory, United States 1881 Cochise, Arizona Territory, United States 1912: Cochise, Arizona, United States
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Franz, Erwin, Fritz, Dieter, Manfred, Heinz, Alois, Ewald, Helmut.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, literally ‘cutter’, from Middle High German snīder, German Schneider, Yiddish shnayder. The same term was sometimes used to denote a woodcutter. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and Czechia. In Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, and Slovenia it is also established in Slavicized forms (see 2 below). In part, Schneider is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Sneider 1, Snider 1, and Snyder 1.
Germanized form of Czech, Slovak, Croatian, and Slovenian Šnajdr or Šnajder, and Czech Šneidr, Šneider, Šnejdr, and Šnejder, surnames of German origin (see above).
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