When Theodore Gotthilf Buchholz was born on 12 March 1842, in Schönewald, Landsberg an der Warthe, Brandenburg, Prussia, his father, Carl Wilhelm Buchholz, was 38 and his mother, Dorothea Just, was 35. He married Anna Matilda Sommercorn on 23 May 1877. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Akron, Tuscola, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Saint George Township, Benton, Minnesota, United States in 1920. He died on 22 April 1931, in Foley, Benton, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Bethany, Winona, Minnesota, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Winona, Minnesota Territory, United States 1858: Winona, Minnesota, United States
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Gerda, Heinz, Reinhardt, Gunter, Hermann, Ilse, Arno, Claus, Dietmar.
German: topographic name for someone who lived near a beech wood, from Middle High German buoch ‘beech’ + holz ‘wood, forest’, or a habitational name from a place called Buchholz, of which there are numerous examples, especially in northern Germany. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Buchholz ‘beech wood’ (see 1 above). Compare Buchholtz , Bucholtz , Bucholz , Buckholtz , and Buckholz .
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