When Harvey Hostetter was born on 16 April 1872, in Thayer, Neosho, Kansas, United States, his father, Harvey L. Hostetter, was 40 and his mother, Martha Edith Caldwell, was 41. He married Olive May Allen on 22 April 1894, in Jasper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Tuckahoe, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Galena Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 5 December 1939, in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Carl Junction, Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Altered form of German and Swiss German Hofstetter or Hoffstetter , and also of German Hochstätter (see Hochstatter ) and Swiss German Hostettler . The surname Hostetter is also found in France (Alsace).
History: This is one of the American variants of the name of a Swiss Mennonite (Amish) family, originally spelled Hostettler .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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