Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . be found in Proskes library. Honiberger, Hoenberg, Homburg, would seem only variantsof the name Umberger or Humberger, because of the similarityin the descriptions of their armor, and the names of the placesbelow suggest the patronymic as one of the place names. Honiberg, Wurttemberg, District of the Danube belongingto a place called Waldsee, a village with ninety-two inhabitantsnear Aniach. Humberg, Wurttemberg, a district of the Just, belonging toGa
Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . be found in Proskes library. Honiberger, Hoenberg, Homburg, would seem only variantsof the name Umberger or Humberger, because of the similarityin the descriptions of their armor, and the names of the placesbelow suggest the patronymic as one of the place names. Honiberg, Wurttemberg, District of the Danube belongingto a place called Waldsee, a village with ninety-two inhabitantsnear Aniach. Humberg, Wurttemberg, a district of the Just, belonging toGaildorf, a village of twenty-three inhabitants, Gochwenel. The original form of the name Umberger was undoubtedlyvon Homberg. Like that of most other surnames, however, thatof Umberger has, with the passing of the years, been modified inspelling and pronunciation to suit modern ideas and a differentenvironment, the prefix von being dropped, and the terminationer being added to take its place. The other changes were evi-dently made so that the spelling conformed more closely to thepresent pronunciation of the name, hence the form
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