Catharine Marie Sophie Meyer was born in October 1860, in Germany as the daughter of Christopher Henry Meyer and Marie Plelcke. She married Friedrich John Hartwig Pauling on 23 January 1891, in Caledonia Township, O'Brien, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Caledonia Township, O'Brien, Iowa, United States for about 30 years and Germantown, O'Brien, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 23 July 1958, in Sterling, Logan, Colorado, United States, at the age of 97.
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German and Swiss German: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin maior ‘greater, superior’). This form of the surname is also established in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine); see also 3 below. Compare Maier , Mayer , Meier , and Myer .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Meyer, from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of or ‘light’ with the prefix m-. Compare Maier , Majer , Major , Mayer , Mayor , Meier , and Meir .
Dutch: variant, also Flemish and Americanized, of Meijer , a cognate of 1 above. This surname is also established in South Africa, where it was also brought from France (see 1 above).
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