Brief Life History of Joseph Bassler
When Joseph Bassler Brenneman was born on 20 October 1807, in Manor Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Bowman Brenneman, was 44 and his mother, Elizabetha Bossler, was 39. He married Barbara Hess Kreider on 2 September 1828, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 7 August 1872, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Safe Harbor, Conestoga Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Joseph Breneman, "United States Census, 1850"
- Joseph Brenneman, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Joseph Brenneman, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Swiss German Brönnimann, via its German altered form Brennemann (see below).
Americanized form of German Brennemann: probably a variant of Brenner . Compare Branaman and Breneman .
History: This (see 1 above) is the name of a Swiss Mennonite and Amish family, originally spelled Brönnimann. The name was first brought to the Palatinate, Germany, in the 17th century by Melchior Brönnimann, a refugee who fled from the canton of Bern, Switzerland, because of religious persecution. In the Palatinate the name was changed to German form Brennemann and then, with the arrival of the Mennonite immigrant Melchior Brenneman(n) in Lancaster County, PA, in the beginning of the 18th century, to Brenneman. Among the Mennonites and Amish in the US the name is also established in the form Breneman.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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