When John Meyer was born on 26 December 1807, in Mount Bethel, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Johannes John Meyer, was 38 and his mother, Eva Ruch, was 32. He married Deborah Flick on 20 November 1830, in Flicksville, Washington Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Middleton, Dane, Wisconsin, United States in 1850. He died on 30 June 1865, in Verona, Dane, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 57.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
German and Swiss German: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin maior ‘greater, superior’). This form of the surname is also established in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine); see also 3 below. Compare Maier , Mayer , Meier , and Myer .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Meyer, from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of or ‘light’ with the prefix m-. Compare Maier , Majer , Major , Mayer , Mayor , Meier , and Meir .
Dutch: variant, also Flemish and Americanized, of Meijer , a cognate of 1 above. This surname is also established in South Africa, where it was also brought from France (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names"JOHN MEYERS, deceased. Was born in Pennsylvania in 1807; came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1847, and located on Sec. 21, in the town of Verona; entered the land and made all the improvements; built …
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