Adolph Robert Schneider

Brief Life History of Adolph Robert

When Adolph Robert Schneider was born on 5 March 1901, in San Francisco, California, United States, his father, Konrad Schneider, was 32 and his mother, Maria Margaretha Jung, was 22. He married Joan Margaret Root on 25 September 1936, in Salinas, Monterey, California, United States. He lived in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States in 1950. He died on 9 February 1976, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Olivet Memorial, San Francisco, California, United States.

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Adolph Robert Schneider
1901–1976
Joan Margaret Root
1903–1988
Marriage: 25 September 1936

Sources (13)

  • Adolph R Schneider, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Adolph Robert Schneider, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • Adolph Schneider, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1902 · So Much Farm Land

A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.

1921

EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Manona Dolores VanDeventer Spier BIRTH May 1892 California, USA DEATH 28 Feb 1921 (aged 28) San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA BURIAL Olivet Memorial San Francisco County, California, USA MEMORIAL ID 237133547 · View Source

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Franz, Erwin, Fritz, Dieter, Manfred, Heinz, Alois, Ewald, Helmut.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, literally ‘cutter’, from Middle High German snīder, German Schneider, Yiddish shnayder. The same term was sometimes used to denote a woodcutter. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and Czechia. In Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, and Slovenia it is also established in Slavicized forms (see 2 below). In part, Schneider is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Sneider 1, Snider 1, and Snyder 1.

Germanized form of Czech, Slovak, Croatian, and Slovenian Šnajdr or Šnajder, and Czech Šneidr, Šneider, Šnejdr, and Šnejder, surnames of German origin (see above).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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