Brief Life History of John Frederick
When John Frederick Schwab was born about February 1876, in Switzerland, his father, Abraham F Schwab, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Kiefer, was 23. He lived in Mill Creek Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Mount Healthy, Springfield Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States in 1940. He died in 1963, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.
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- John F Schwab in household of Katie Buecker, "United States Census, 1910"
- John Fred Schwab, "Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997"
- John F Schwab, "United States Census, 1940"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1893
Mount Healthy was incorporated as a village in 1893.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from Swabia (German Schwaben), from Middle High German Swāp, German Schwabe ‘Swabian’. The region takes its name from an ancient Germanic tribe recorded from the 1st century BC in the Latin form Suebi or Suevi, of uncertain origin; it was an independent duchy from the 10th century until 1313, when the territory was broken up. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, and some other European countries (compare 2 below).
Germanized form of Czech, Slovak, Rusyn (from Slovakia), Slovenian, and Croatian Šváb or Švab (see Svab ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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