Brief Life History of Simon
When Simon Messinger was born on 21 July 1833, in New Jersey, United States, his father, George Messinger, was 36 and his mother, Susanna Simon, was 34. He married Levina Wilhelm on 1 December 1855, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lower Mount Bethel Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Ackermanville, Washington Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 24 December 1900, in Bangor, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Bangor, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Simon Messinger, "United States Census, 1870"
- Simon Messinger, "Find A Grave Index"
- Simon Messinger in entry for Herbert Messinger and Katie Reagle, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1835
A strike involving more than 2,000 workers from 20 textile mills in Paterson, New Jersey. Many of those involved were children, Irish, or both. The primary goal of the strike was to reduce the daily working hours from 13.5 to 11. Employers refused to negotiate, but the strike ended with a declaration that the workdays would now be 12 hours during the week and 9 hours on Saturdays. Paterson employers also blacklisted many of the strike leaders and their families.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1861
No Civil War battles took place within the state boundaries of New Jersey, but its citizens participated extensively in the war. Volunteers that were turned away ended up serving in the militias of nearby states like Pennsylvania and New York. Whenever President Lincoln requested more troops, New Jersey responded quickly. In total, the state contributed over 88,000 soldiers (6,000 of which died).
Name Meaning
English: variant of Messenger .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a brazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German messinc ‘brass’, German Messing, from Greek mossynoikos (chalkos) ‘Mossynoecan bronze’, named after the people of northeastern Asia Minor who first produced the alloy.
German: habitational name for someone from Mössingen in Baden-Württemberg (Messingen in the local dialect), which is recorded as Masginga in 789, probably from the personal name Masco + ingen, suffix of relationship.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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