When Herman William Steinberg was born on 12 October 1876, in Germany, his father, August Steinberg, was 27 and his mother, Williamine, was 28. He married Mary Loretta Lechner on 13 November 1897, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He died on 3 December 1944, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Forest Park, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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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.
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Meyer, Hyman, Moshe, Emanuel, Yehuda, Chaim, Isadore, Ari, Aron, Aviva.
German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Swedish (of German origin): habitational name from any of the many places called Steinberg, from Old High German stein ‘stone’ + berg ‘mountain, hill’. Compare Stoneberg and Stoneburg .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name composed of German Stein ‘stone’ + Berg ‘mountain, hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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