Brief Life History of Christian Heinrich
When Christian Heinrich Schmidt was born on 9 December 1834, in Freyburg, Freyburg (Unstrut), Querfurt, Province of Saxony, Prussia, Germany, his father, Joh. Gottfried Adam Furchtegott Schmidt, was 34 and his mother, Theresia Concordie Schmidt, was 22. He married Mary Rose Waniata on 24 April 1862, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in York, Nebraska, United States in 1880 and Leroy Township, York, Nebraska, United States for about 25 years. He died on 14 December 1910, in York, York, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in York, York, Nebraska, United States.
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- Henry C Smith, "United States Census, 1910"
- Christian Heinrich Schmidt, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
- Christian Heinrich Schmidt, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1852 · The Book of Mormon Published in German
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Gerhard, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Manfred, Wolfgang, Ewald, Gunter.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine, also Nord), the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland. It is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see below). In part, Schmidt is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
Germanized form of Czech Šmíd and Šmít, Slovenian, Croatian, and Slovak Šmid or Šmit, surnames of German origin (see above and Smid 2 and Smit 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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