Frank George Goss

Brief Life History of Frank George

When Frank George Goss was born on 22 October 1856, in Palermo, Halton, Ontario, Canada, his father, Jesse Goss, was 24 and his mother, Rebecca Smith, was 20. He married Ella E Campman in 1876, in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Boggs Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Wallaceton, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910.

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Family Time Line

Frank George Goss
1856–
Ella E Campman
1855–
Marriage: 1876
Leonard J Goss
1878–1940
Mintie Goss
1884–
Fred George Goss
1893–
Eva Jane Goss
1896–1960

Sources (16)

  • George Goss in household of Jesse Goss, "United States Census, 1860"
  • G F Goss, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
  • George Frank Goss, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

English, German, and French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Gozzo, Gauz (Middle English, Old French Gosse), short forms of compound names based on the element goz (from gaut, an ethnic name meaning ‘Geat’ or ‘Goth’), rarely also on the element gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’. In Middle English Gosse was frequently used as a short form of the double diminutive Goscelin (see Joslin ). Geats (Old English gēatas, Old Scandinavian gautar) were the Scandinavian people formerly occupying modern Götaland in Sweden, their name being closely related to that of the Goths (Old English gotan, Old Scandinavian gotar). Both ethnic names are presumably derived from a Proto-Germanic word meaning ‘to pour’. The relationship between Geats and Goths is controversial and in the name elements the two ethnicities are not always distinguishable. This surname is rare in France, where the common form is Gosse .

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

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