Brief Life History of Anna Elisabeth
When Anna Elisabeth Berger was born on 30 September 1850, in Steffisburg, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Christian Berger, was 39 and her mother, Magdalena Zaugg, was 29. She married Christian Hirschi on 27 April 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 28 February 1917, in Park Valley, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Park Valley, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- Anne Elizabeth Hirschi in household of Christain Hirschi, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Anna Elisabeth Berger - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Anna Elisabeth Berger
- Elizabeth Hirschi, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Box Elder, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Box Elder, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · Impeach the President!
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
Name Meaning
German, Dutch, Swedish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains or hills (see Berg ). The surname of German origin is also found in many other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Russia, Poland, Czechia, Hungary, and Croatia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic topographic names or surnames. As a Jewish name it is mainly artificial. Compare Bargar , Barger , Barker , Barrier , and Barriger .
French: occupational name from Old French bergier ‘shepherd’ (from Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’). It is also found in England, as a surname of Huguenot origin. Compare Shepard .
Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farms so named with the plural of Berg ‘mountain’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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