When Robert J Gass was born in 1914, in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York, United States, his father, Robert Gass, was 35 and his mother, Mary, was 34.
South German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in a street in a city, town, or village, Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, Yiddish gas ‘street, side street’.
Altered form of German Gast .
Scottish (southwestern): habitational name from Gasse (Kirkcudbrights).
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