When Catherine Louisa Hacker was born on 23 August 1839, in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States, her father, Jonathan Hacker, was 37 and her mother, Catharine Herring, was 32. She married George Smith about 1860, in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Huntington Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Union Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1880. She was buried in Huntington, Indiana, United States.
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Dayton was incorporated as a city.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Häcker); Dutch: occupational name for a butcher or a woodcutter, from an agent derivative of Middle High German hacken, Dutch hakken ‘to hack, to chop’. The Jewish surname may be from Yiddish heker ‘butcher’, holtsheker ‘woodcutter’ (German Holzhacker), or valdheker ‘lumberjack’, or from German Hacker ‘woodchopper’. Compare Haecker .
English (southwestern): from an agent derivative of Middle English hacken ‘to hack’, hence an occupational name for a woodcutter or, perhaps, a maker of hacks (hakkes), a word used in Middle English to denote a variety of agricultural tools such as mattocks and hoes.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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