Brief Life History of Washington
When Washington Gottschalk was born in July 1868, in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States, his father, Alexander Ernest Gottschalk, was 59 and his mother, Ida Huldreiche Leibe, was 37. He married Kathlyn Fitzherbert about 1897, in New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Northampton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 11 July 1945, in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 77.
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- Washington Gottschalk in household of Ida Gottschalk, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Washington Gottschalk - Government record: birth-name: Washington Gottschalk
- Cathrin Fitzherbert in entry for Herman E Gottschalk, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Armin, Horst, Otto, Arno, Franz, Fritz, Gunther, Heinz, Ingo, Klaus.
German, Danish, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): from a medieval personal name composed of Middle High German got ‘God’ (Old High German got) + scalh ‘servant, serf’ (Old High German scalc).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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