When Joseph Richard Schmitt was born on 4 September 1926, in Newport, Campbell, Kentucky, United States, his father, Joseph William Schmitt, was 29 and his mother, Julia Catherine Moore, was 30. He married Vera L Sarback on 7 March 1947, in Newport, Campbell, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Highland Heights, Campbell, Kentucky, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 13 March 1985, in Newport, Campbell, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Fort Thomas, Campbell, Kentucky, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
The hanging of Rainey Bethea on August 14,1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky was the last pubic hanging in the state and the United States. Anywhere from 15,000-20,000 people showed up for this event. The media was all over the hanging since the Sheriff of Davies county was a female, even though she did not pull levers. Because of the media coverage and the circus it caused, this was the last hanging.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Hans, Dieter, Gerhard, Alfons, Bernhard, Franz, Heinz, Helmut, Otto, Bernd.
South German: variant of Schmidt ‘blacksmith’. This form of the surname is also common in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine).
Germanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Šmit, Czech Šmít, surnames of German origin (compare above, see Smit 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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