Jacob Schatz was born on 10 January 1798, in Pennsylvania, United States. He married Elizabeth Detweiler Shoemaker about 1827, in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 7 March 1872, in Salford Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Harleysville, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a treasurer, from German Schatz ‘treasure’, Middle High German scha(t)z. It may also have been a nickname for a rich man (or ironically for a miser), or else for a well-liked person or a ladies’ favorite, from the use of the vocabulary word as a term of endearment. As a Jewish name it is mainly artificial.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from an acronym of the Hebrew phrase SHeliach-TSibur ‘emissary of the congregation’, an epithet of the cantor.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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