When George C Metzger was born in 1875, in Pike, Illinois, United States, his father, John Adam Metzger, was 37 and his mother, Hannah Copen Lock, was 34. He married Minnie Ervin on 14 May 1899, in Pike, Illinois, United States. He lived in Pittsfield Township, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1960, at the age of 85, and was buried in Pittsfield West Cemetery, Pittsfield Township, Pike, Illinois, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a butcher from Middle High German metziger, metzjer, German Metzger (probably deriving from Old French macecrier ‘butcher’).
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