When Frank Joseph Schmitt was born on 24 August 1861, in Ozaukee, Wisconsin, United States, his father, George Johann Schmitt, was 45 and his mother, Anna Margaretha Wetterich, was 40. He married Elisabeth Lohmann on 10 July 1888, in Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 8 April 1925, in Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Hans, Dieter, Gerhard, Alfons, Bernhard, Franz, Heinz, Helmut, Otto, Bernd.
South German: variant of Schmidt ‘blacksmith’. This form of the surname is also common in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine).
Germanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Šmit, Czech Šmít, surnames of German origin (compare above, see Smit 3).
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