Brief Life History of Adam
When Adam Schiffer was born on 24 November 1888, in Rödingen, Jülich, Rhineland, Prussia, his father, Mathias Schiffer, was 38 and his mother, Anna Victoria Winnickes, was 28. He married Gladys Irene Betts on 2 March 1926, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 14 March 1935, in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States.
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- Adam Schiffer, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Adam Schiffer - Government record: Military record or discharge: birth: 24 November 1888; Roedingen, Rheinland, Preussen, Germany
- Adam Schiffer, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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World Events (8)
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1901 · The Daughters of Utah Pioneers
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized by Annie Taylor Hyde after she invited a group of fifty-four women to her home to find ways to recognize names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers. They followed the lead of other national lineage societies, such as the Daughters of the American Revolution. They were legally incorporated in 1925.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Franz, Bernhard, Fritzi, Hans, Rudi, Wilhelm, Wolfgang.
German: occupational name for a mariner or boatman, from anagent derivative of Middle High German schif ‘ship’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Schiffer ‘boatman’, ‘skipper’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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