Brief Life History of Catherine Ort
When Catherine Ort Schmidt was born about 1796, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Schmidt, was 28 and her mother, Catharine Elizabeth Ort, was 23. She married Samuel Weyer in 1827. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1850 and Clifton, Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1860. She died on 19 October 1887, in Franklin, Ohio, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Hampton, Franklin, Iowa, United States.
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- Catharine Hake in household of George Hake, "United States Census, 1860"
- Cath Weyher, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Catherina Smith in entry for John Prosser and Carrie Habee Spark, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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