When Charles C. Schrimpf was born on 20 July 1843, in Missouri, United States, his father, Vincent Charles Schrimpf, was 32 and his mother, Caroline Grimm, was 21. He married Ann Maris Faust on 6 September 1866, in Kentucky, United States. He lived in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. He died on 12 April 1925, at the age of 81, and was buried in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
German: nickname for someone with a conspicuous scar, from Middle High German schrimpf ‘scratch, cut’, or possibly for a small person, from a noun derivative of schrimpfen ‘to shrink or diminish’.
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