When Peter Wermuth was born in 1875, in Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Ulrich Wermuth, was 48 and his mother, Mary Lohr, was 42. He died on 6 June 1875, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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German:
metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered or dealt in herbs, from Middle High German wërmuot ‘wormwood’.
perhaps also from the ancient Germanic personal name Warmut, composed of any of three verb forms meaning ‘to defend, protect, or warn’ + muot ‘intent, spirit’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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