When Rev. Virgil Chittenden Hart was born on 2 January 1840, in Lorraine, Jefferson, New York, United States, his father, Augustus Washington Hart, was 34 and his mother, Joanna Horr, was 25. He married Adelaide Jane Gilliland on 31 August 1865, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States in 1855 and Caroline Island, Line Islands, Kiribati in 1904. He died on 24 February 1904, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 64, and was buried in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
English and North German: nickname from Middle English hert (Old English heorot), Middle Low German hërte, harte ‘hart, stag’, perhaps for a quick-footed or timorous individual.
German: variant of Hardt 1 and 2. It is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name or nickname from German and Yiddish hart ‘hard’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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