When Blanche Marie Welsh was born on 7 April 1905, in Zwingle, Dubuque, Iowa, United States, her father, John Henry Welsh, was 23 and her mother, Susan Ansie Peters, was 18. She had at least 1 daughter with William Bernard Collins. She lived in Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1935. She died on 7 February 1988, in Plano, Collin, Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Key West, Dubuque, Iowa, United States.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
During the Chicago race riot, which was raised by racial conflicts throughout Chicago, thirty-eight people died (23 black and 15 white) and over five hundred were injured. It is considered the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer and was the worst race riot in Illinois.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Scottish, English, and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English welshe (Old English wēalisc, wēlisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’, for someone from Wales or a speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and Wallace .
Americanized form of German Welsch .
Americanized form of Ukrainian and Jewish (from Ukraine) Voloshin or its Polish variant Wołoszyn (see Woloszyn ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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