Robert Victor Peter

Brief Life History of Robert Victor

When Robert Victor Peter was born on 7 August 1884, in Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Peter, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Ellen Stocker, was 36. He married Anna Viola Secrist on 28 January 1916, in Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Clay Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Union Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States for about 20 years. He died on 22 December 1957, at the age of 73, and was buried in Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Victor Peter
1884–1957
Anna Viola Secrist
1883–1961
Marriage: 28 January 1916
Richard Victor Peter
1920–1999

Sources (14)

  • Robert V Peters, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Robert Victor Peter, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
  • Robert Victor Peter, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

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World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1890

Idaho is the 43rd state.

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Ernst, Fritz, Heinz, Helmut, Horst, Kaspar, Klaus, Siegfried, Wolfgang.

English, Scottish, German, Dutch, French (Alsace and Lorraine), Czech (Moravian), Slovak, Croatian, and Slovenian; Hungarian (Péter): from the personal name Peter (Greek Petros, from petra ‘rock’). The personal name was popular throughout Christian Europe in the Middle Ages, having been bestowed by Christ as a byname on the apostle Simon bar Jonah, the brother of Andrew. The name was chosen by Christ for its symbolic significance (John 1:42, Matt. 16:18); Saint Peter is regarded as the founding head of the Christian Church in view of Christ's saying, ‘Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church’. In Christian Germany in the early Middle Ages this was the most frequent personal name of non-ancient Germanic origin until the 14th century. In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages, for example Czech Petr , Polish Piotr and Pietr, Albanian Pjetri (from the personal name Pjetër, definite form Pjetri), and also their derivatives (see examples at Peterson ). It has also been adopted as a surname by Ashkenazic Jews.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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