When Pleasant Whitwell Harder was born on 1 March 1840, in Hickman, Tennessee, United States, his father, Josiah Powell Harder, was 40 and his mother, Mary Polly Hicks, was 33. He died on 15 November 1860, in Hickman, Smith, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 20.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
English: occupational name from an agent noun derived from Middle English hardenen ‘to make hard’ (Old English heardian), denoting a hardener of metals (used by Chaucer) and elsewhere a baker who hardened dough with heat.
North German and Danish: from the ancient Germanic personal name Harther, composed of the elements hard ‘strong, hard’+ heri ‘army’.
South German: topographic name from Middle High German hart ‘woodland used as pasture’, or a habitational name for someone from any of the places called with this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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