Brief Life History of Johann-John Victor
When Johann-John Victor Schiffer was born on 25 December 1851, in Strassbessenbach, Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Franz Xavier Schiffer, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Aulbach, was 18. He married Catherine Eleonora Oyler on 9 April 1872, in Ross, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1900 and Union Township, Brown, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died on 28 January 1918, in Portsmouth, Wayne Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, United States.
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- John Shiffer in household of Francis Shiffer, "United States Census, 1860"
- John V. Schiffer, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- John V Schiffer, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1852 · The Book of Mormon Published in German
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Franz, Bernhard, Fritzi, Hans, Rudi, Wilhelm, Wolfgang.
German: occupational name for a mariner or boatman, from anagent derivative of Middle High German schif ‘ship’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Schiffer ‘boatman’, ‘skipper’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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