Brief Life History of William Daniel
When William Daniel Gross was born on 28 May 1845, in Warren, Indiana, United States, his father, William Henry Gross, was 40 and his mother, Nancy Ann Wood, was 20. He married Arminda Angeline Beeson on 14 December 1873, in Dallas, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Van Meter, Dallas, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Adel, Dallas, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 29 December 1924, in Dallas, Iowa, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Otterman Cemetery, De Soto, Dallas, Iowa, United States.
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- Daniel W Gross, "United States Census, 1880"
- William D. Cross, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- William Daniel Gross, "Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1861-1949"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Dallas, Iowa, United States
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a big man, from Middle High German grōz ‘large, corpulent’, German gross. This surname is also established in some other parts of Europe, most notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia it is also found (in Slovenia almost exclusively) in the Slavicized form Gros (see also 3 below). The Jewish name has been Hebraicized as Gadol .
English: descriptive nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros, grosse, groce ’large; heavy’, also meaning ‘simple, plain’, from Old French gros ‘big, fat’ (from Latin grossus ‘thick’), a word of ancient Germanic origin, thus etymologically the same word as in 1 above.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian, Polish, Croatian or other Slavic Gros , itself of German origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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