Brief Life History of Henry Schwarz
When Henry Schwarz Minnich Jr was born on 28 October 1872, in Washington Township, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Henry Schwarz Minnich, was 27 and his mother, Caroline H. Herring, was 22. He died on 30 April 1963, at the age of 90.
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- Henry Minnig in household of Henry S. Minnig, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
German: from Middle High German münich ‘monk’ (see Monk ), denoting someone who worked for the monks in a local monastery, or possibly a nickname for someone who had an ascetic life style like that of a monk. Compare Minich 1.
North German: from a pet form of a local form of the personal name Mein .
In some cases also an Americanized form of Croatian Minić (see Minich 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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