When Hugh Huber was born on 6 August 1830, in Allen Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Isaac Huber, was 23 and his mother, Margaretta Meyer, was 21. He married Caroline R. Frey on 14 September 1856, in Allen Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hanover Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Hanover, Hanover Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 28 December 1889, at the age of 59.
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Kurt, Hans, Erwin, Franz, Alois, Fritz, Helmut, Mathias, Oskar, Wilhelm, Dieter.
Swiss German and German (also Hüber): status name based on Middle High German huobe, a measure of land, varying in size at different periods and in different places, but always of considerable extent, appreciably larger than the holding of the average peasant. The surname usually denotes a holder or owner of this amount of land, who would have been a prosperous small farmer and probably one of the leading men of his village. This surname is also found in other central European countries, for example Poland and Slovenia. See also Hoffner , compare Hueber .
Dutch: variant of Hubert .
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