When Philip Julius Wurtz was born on 25 February 1889, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, his father, Charles Julius Wurtz Jr, was 39 and his mother, Christine S. Wack, was 25. He married Irene Aloysia Schwartz on 20 December 1915, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 16 January 1966, in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Grand Army Of The Republic Cemetery, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.
German (also Würtz): metonymic occupational name for a vegetable grower or a greengrocer or grower or seller of herbs, from Middle High German würz, wurz ‘plant; herb, seasoning’. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Wurz . Compare Wuertz .
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