When Samuel L. Sturm was born on 25 February 1814, in Miami, Ohio, United States, his father, Mathias Sturm Jr., was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Reilly, was 33. He married Elizabeth Phenix on 4 October 1838, in Stark, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Osceola, Stark, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 29 August 1898, in Elmira, Stark, Illinois, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Osceola Grove Cemetery, Elmira, Stark, Illinois, United States.
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German: nickname for a man of blustery temperament, from Middle High German sturm ‘storm’. This form of the surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Czechia (see also 2 below).
Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, and Slovak (Šturm): nickname from šturm, an (obsolete) word of German origin meaning ‘storm’, also ‘uproar’ (see 1 above).
Dutch: variant of Storm .
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