Brief Life History of August Frederick
August Frederick Schmidt was born on 16 June 1896, in New York City, New York County, New York, United States. He married Gladys Minerva Poole on 25 February 1926, in Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Camanche, Clinton, Iowa, United States in 1930. He died on 6 September 1957, in Clinton, Iowa, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Springdale Cemetery, Clinton, Iowa, United States.
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Sources (16)
- August Schmidt, "United States Census, 1930"
- August Schmidt, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- August Schmidt, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
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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