Henry Alvin Schwartz was born in 1834, in New York, United States. He married Mary Jane Thornton in 1857, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died in 1874, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 40.
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Hyman, Emanuel, Meyer, Chaim, Isadore, Moshe, Aron, Ari, Mayer, Hershel.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with black hair or a dark complexion, from Middle High German swarz, German schwarz, Yiddish shvarts ‘dark, black’. In some cases this may be a habitational name from any of the places called Schwarz, named with the same word. This form of the surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, etc. Compare Schwarcz , Schwarz , Shwartz , Swarts , and Swartz .
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