Brief Life History of John Harvey
When John Harvey Groff was born on 14 May 1863, in Colerain Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Groff, was 34 and his mother, Ann Ellen Swisher, was 32. He married Sallie C. Mauch in 1888, in Paradise, Paradise Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 18 December 1914, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Kirkwood, Colerain Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- John Groff, "United States Census, 1870"
- John Harvey Groff, "Find A Grave Index"
- Harvey Graff, "United States Census, 1900"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Graff .
Americanized form of Hungarian and Slovak Gróf, Czech, Slovenian, and Croatian Grof ‘count’. The surname Groff is also found in Hungary, where it is very rare.
Americanized form of Norwegian Grov: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so called, from Old Norse grǫf ‘hollow, depression’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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