Brief Life History of Edwin Matthew
When Edwin Matthew Schmidt was born on 27 June 1903, in Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Maithias Schmidtke, was 30 and his mother, Anna G. Sommerfeldt, was 29. He married Elizabeth Ellen Metzger on 2 October 1929, in Utah, United States. He lived in Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 22 January 1974, at the age of 70, and was buried in Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Edwin Smith in household of Matthew Smith, "United States Census, 1910"
- Edwin M. Schmidt, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Edwin Matt Schmidt, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
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1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1908 · The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot
Being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot dates to the more prosperous era in the history of American railroad travel. Originally called the Union Station, it was jointly constructed by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroads and the Oregon Short Line. The platforms behind the station ran north-to-south, parallel to the first main line built in the Salt Lake Valley. When Amtrak was formed in 1971, it took over the passenger services at the station, but all trains were moved to the Rio Grande station after it joined Amtrak. In January 2006, The Depot was opened as a shopping center that housed shops, restaurants and music venues.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Gerhard, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Manfred, Wolfgang, Ewald, Gunter.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine, also Nord), the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland. It is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see below). In part, Schmidt is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
Germanized form of Czech Šmíd and Šmít, Slovenian, Croatian, and Slovak Šmid or Šmit, surnames of German origin (see above and Smid 2 and Smit 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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