Brief Life History of Johann Friedrich
When Johann Friedrich Zahn was born on 29 December 1819, in Schwegenheim, Germersheim, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Andreas Zahn, was 30 and his mother, Anna Apollonia Schäffer, was 22. He married Anna Christina Krück on 2 September 1841, in Seal Township, Pike, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Seal Township, Pike, Ohio, United States in 1860. His occupation is listed as farmer in Canton, Lewis, Missouri, United States. He died on 7 March 1913, in Canton, Lewis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Canton, Lewis, Missouri, United States.
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- Frederick Zahn, "United States Census, 1860"
- Johann Friederich Zahn, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
- Johann Friedrich Zahn, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1833
Historical Boundaries: 1833: Lewis County, Missouri, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Heinz, Helmut, Markus, Armin, Dieter, Fritz, Gerhard, Heinrich, Herta, Horst, Joerg.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with a large or peculiar tooth or a remarkable or defective set of teeth, from Middle High German zan(t) ‘tooth’, German Zahn.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 臧, possibly based on its Mandarin pronunciation, see Zang 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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