Brief Life History of Minnie
When Minnie Hoffmann was born on 24 February 1885, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, her father, Julius Hoffmann, was 26 and her mother, Minnie Schmidt, was 25. She married Edwin Joseph Scherer on 6 June 1905, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died on 23 August 1973, at the age of 88, and was buried in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Minnie Sherer, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Minnie Hoffmann - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Minnie Hoffmann
- Minnie Hoffmann Scherer, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Gerhard, Hans, Heinz, Otto, Dieter, Klaus, Wolfgang, Armin, Manfred, Ernst, Erwin.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a steward on a farm or estate, from German Hof(f) ‘farm, manor farm, courtyard’ + Mann ‘man’. Originally, this was a status name for a farmer who owned his own land as opposed to holding it by rent or feudal obligation, but the name soon came to denote the manager or steward of a manor farm, in which sense it is frequent also among Jews, since many Jews held managerial positions on non-Jewish estates. This form of the surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Czechia, and the Netherlands. Compare Hofman , Hofmann , Homann , and Huffman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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