John A. Pfeffer was born in 1833. He died in 1899, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 66.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German pfeffer, German Pfeffer ‘pepper’, a metonymic occupational name for a spicer; alternatively, it may be a nickname for a man with a fiery or snappish temperament.
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