Harry O. Kauffman

Brief Life History of Harry O.

When Harry O. Kauffman was born on 17 January 1868, in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Andrew Shellenberger Kauffman, was 23 and his mother, Anna Kline Otstot, was 20. He married Susan K. Eshbach on 13 December 1888, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Manor Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 26 March 1960, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Mount Bethel Cemetery, Columbia, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Harry O. Kauffman
1868–1960
Susan K. Eshbach
1865–1910
Marriage: 13 December 1888
Raymond E. Kauffman
1889–1969
John Kauffman
1891–1893
Esther Kauffman
1902–

Sources (13)

  • Henry O Kauffman in household of Andrew S Kauffman, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Harry O. Kauffman, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
  • Harry O. Kaufman, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

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.

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

Americanized form of German Kaufmann , and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname. Compare Kaufman .

History: As a name of Swiss German origin, originally spelled Kaufmann (see 1 above), the surname Kauffman is very common among the American Mennonites and Amish; variants, such as Kaufman and Coffman , are also found. The main progenitors of the Mennonite bearers of this name were of Swiss ancestry, but came to PA (Lancaster and Berks counties) from the Palatinate, Germany, in the 18th century. Later Mennonite immigrants bearing this name came to the US also from Galicia and Volhynia in Eastern Europe.

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

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