Brief Life History of Peter
When Peter Horn was born on 18 February 1859, in Zell, Kreis Alsfeld, Hesse, Germany, his father, Georg Philipp Horn, was 25 and his mother, Anne Eva Lust, was 20. 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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Sources (8)
- Peter Horn, "United States Census, 1920"
- Johann Peter Horn, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
- Peter Horn, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Hershel, Emanuel, Erez, Yehuda, Ayal, Danit, Doron, Dov, Elad, Elihu, Eran, Haim.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): altered form of Horn 5, originating under Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters it to g in borrowed words and names. In Israel, the name has been reinterpreted by folk etymology as being from Hebrew goren ‘threshing floor’, which is in fact etymologically and semantically unrelated.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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