When Esther O. Landis was born on 24 June 1841, in Washington Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Henry H Landis, was 43 and her mother, Susanna Oberholtzer, was 37. She married Joseph Leaser Oberholtzer in 1859, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Hereford Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. She died on 5 May 1918, in East Greenville, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Churchville, Washington Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
Swiss German and South German: nickname for a highwayman or for someone who lays waste to the land, Middle High German landoese. The surname of Swiss German origin is also found in France (Alsace), where it is rare. Compare Landes and Lantis .
Americanized form of German Landers 3. Alternatively, an altered form of Landers 4. Compare Landess .
History: The ancestor of many of the Americans with the surname Landis was Christopher (or Christian) Landis or Landers from Germany who settled in VA (now WV) in the middle of the 18th century and later moved to NC. The original form of his surname is not known; both the surnames Landis and Landers are found in Germany and they are both established among his descendants, as is the (other) Americanized form Landess. — This is also the name of a Swiss Mennonite family, originating from the canton of Zurich, whose members settled, after the expulsion from Switzerland in the 17th century, in the Palatinate, Germany, and in Alsace, France, or immigrated to America. In both Germany and America the change of the name from Landis to Landes occured. In the first half of the 18th century there were several Mennonites named Landis or Landes who immigrated to PA. The town of Landisville in Lancaster County, PA, is named for one of them.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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