When Amos Gibble Meyer was born on 14 February 1903, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jacob Wenger Meyer, was 40 and his mother, Leah Groh Gibble, was 38. He lived in Bethel Township, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 3 February 1926, at the age of 22, and was buried in Shirksville, Bethel Township, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States.
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German and Swiss German: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin maior ‘greater, superior’). This form of the surname is also established in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine); see also 3 below. Compare Maier , Mayer , Meier , and Myer .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Meyer, from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of or ‘light’ with the prefix m-. Compare Maier , Majer , Major , Mayer , Mayor , Meier , and Meir .
Dutch: variant, also Flemish and Americanized, of Meijer , a cognate of 1 above. This surname is also established in South Africa, where it was also brought from France (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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