Theodore Gotthilf Buchholz

Brief Life History of Theodore Gotthilf

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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Family Time Line

Theodore Gotthilf Buchholz
1842–1931
Anna Matilda Sommercorn
1858–1894
Marriage: 23 May 1877
Emma Matilda Buchholz
1878–1920
Clara Ida Buchholz
1880–1945
Edward Buchholz
1882–1882
Reinhold Theodore Buchholz
1883–1959
Daniel Frederic Buchholz
1885–1955
Hubert Richard Buchholz
1886–1966
Carl William Buchholz
1888–1949
Frank Arthur Buchholz
1891–1962

Sources (23)

  • Theo Bucholz, "Minnesota State Census, 1885"
  • Theodore Buchholz, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"
  • Theador G Buckholz, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1856

Historical Boundaries: 1856: Winona, Minnesota Territory, United States 1858: Winona, Minnesota, United States

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

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.

Name Meaning

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 .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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