Brief Life History of Frederick
When Frederick Frank was born on 2 January 1787, in Herkimer, New York, United States, his father, Captain Frederick Frank, was 46 and his mother, Elizabeth Susanna Fox, was 48. He lived in German Flatts, Herkimer, New York, United States in 1820. He died on 19 July 1815, in Mohawk, German Flatts, Herkimer, New York, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Mohawk Cemetery, Mohawk, German Flatts, Herkimer, New York, United States.
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- Frederick Frank, "United States Census, 1820"
- Friedrich Franck, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
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1788 · The First Presidential Election
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
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Name Meaning
German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): ethnic or habitational name for someone from Franconia (German Franken), a region of southwestern Germany so called from its early settlement by the Franks, an ancient Germanic people who inhabited the lands around the River Rhine in Roman times. In the 6th–9th centuries, under leaders such as Clovis I (c. 466–511) and Charlemagne (742–814), the Franks established a substantial empire in western Europe, from which the country of France takes its name.
English (of Norman origin), Dutch, and German: from the personal name Frank (Norman French Franco, ancient Germanic Franko), in origin an ethnic name for a Frank, or from German Franke ‘Frank(ish), Franconian’ (compare 1 above). This also came to be used as an adjective meaning ‘free, open-hearted, generous’ (Middle English and Old French franc ‘free’, i.e. not a serf or slave), deriving from the fact that in Frankish Gaul only people of Frankish race enjoyed the status of fully free men. As a surname of German origin it is also found (in both possible meanings; see 1 above) in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Franc and Franck .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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