When Howard C. Mertz was born on 3 March 1897, in Saint Charles Township, Saginaw, Michigan, United States, his father, William G Mertz, was 24 and his mother, Nellie Gilchrist, was 24. He died on 1 March 1900, in his hometown, at the age of 2.
German: patronymic from a short form of the personal name Martin .
German: variant of Martz . This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 1 above) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Poland.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Merc: occupational name for a grain or salt measurer, from a vernacular form of merec ‘measurer’. Compare Merz .
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