Brief Life History of Alfred Peter
When Alfred Peter Harder was born on 18 May 1898, in Avoca, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, William HARDER, was 36 and his mother, Anna Margareta VOGT, was 32. He married Pearl Irene Foster on 1 October 1918, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Neola, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1930 and Shelby, Shelby, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 12 September 1966, in Sterling, Logan, Colorado, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Sterling, Logan, Colorado, United States.
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- Albert Harder, "United States 1950 Census"
- Alfred P Harder, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Alfred Peter Harder, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
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Name Meaning
English: occupational name from an agent noun derived from Middle English hardenen ‘to make hard’ (Old English heardian), denoting a hardener of metals (used by Chaucer) and elsewhere a baker who hardened dough with heat.
North German and Danish: from the ancient Germanic personal name Harther, composed of the elements hard ‘strong, hard’+ heri ‘army’.
South German: topographic name from Middle High German hart ‘woodland used as pasture’, or a habitational name for someone from any of the places called with this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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