When Joseph Strauss was born on 2 March 1794, in Bern Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Samuel Strauss, was 37 and his mother, Catharine Elizabeth Umbenhauer, was 35. He died on 12 April 1812, in Bernville, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Bernville, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Manfred, Otto, Erwin, Inge, Gerda, Gerhard, Hannelore, Heinrich, Helmut, Wolfgang, Albrecht.
German: nickname for an awkward or belligerent person, from Middle High German strūz ‘quarrel, complaint’.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German strūze, German Strauss ‘ostrich’, hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of an ostrich, or (among the German nobility) a nickname for someone whose coat-of-arms featured an ostrich, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird. In some cases the Jewish surname was artificial. This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 1 above and 3 below) is also found in some other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, Poland, and Czechia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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