Brief Life History of Wilhelm A
When Wilhelm A Barth was born on 16 February 1855, in Raymond, Racine, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Heinrich Barth, was 27 and his mother, Maria Gertrude Emmerich, was 21. He married Elise Louisa Fredericka Runge on 9 October 1881, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Wisconsin, United States in 1870. He died on 16 October 1926, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- William Bart in household of Henry Bart, "United States Census, 1860"
- William Barth, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- William Barth, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
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1857 · Oldest tobacco shop in the Country
Iwan Ries and Company is one of the oldest family owned tobacco companies in North America and was originally owned by Edward Hoffman. Realizing that he could not run the company alone, Hoffman recruited his nephew, Iwan Ries to join him. The name of the Company changed from E. Hoffman and Co. when Edward Hoffman retired in 1898.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Hans, Kurt, Franz, Erwin, Florian, Gerhard, Gunther, Klaus, Manfred, Armin, Arno.
German and Swiss German: nickname for a bearded man, from Middle High German bart ‘beard’. This name, which can not be always distinguished from 2 and 4 below, is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, in the last four countries sometimes as a German translation of Slavic surnames meaning ‘beard’ or ‘bearded man’ (see Bart 1). See also Beard 1.
German: habitational name from a place so named in Pomerania.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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