When Peter Horn was born on 18 February 1859, in Zell, Alsfeld, Hesse, Germany, his father, Whilhelm Horn, was 29 and his mother, Maria Schumacher, was 25. He married Elizabeth Barbara Brunner on 17 April 1886, in McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 6 October 1944, in McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery, McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
German (Hören): habitational name from Höri, a peninsula in Lake Constance.
Altered form of German and Dutch Horn .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn .
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