Brief Life History of Otto Joseph
When Otto Joseph Gerner was born on 25 October 1896, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, his father, Otto J. Gerner, was 42 and his mother, Catharina Schadegg, was 33. He married Arvilla Sanders on 10 June 1938, in Carlton, Minnesota, United States. He lived in Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States in 1935 and Cambridge, Isanti, Minnesota, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 7 December 1986, in Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Hackensack, Cass, Minnesota, United States.
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- Otto J Gerner, "United States 1950 Census"
- Otto Joseph Gerner, "Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980"
- Otto Joseph Gerner, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
1898 · The Kensington Runestone
A Swedish man, Olof Ohman, was farming on his land when he came across a 202-pound rock slab that had strange writing on it. Convinced it was proof that Scandinavian explorers came to that area before Columbus found the Americas, he had it looked at by scholars and linguists to find its translation. There has been a drawn-out debate on the stone's authenticity, with a scholarly consensus that classifies it as a hoax and the community which is convinced that it is authentic.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English and German: variant of Garner .
German: habitational name for someone from any of the five places in Bavaria called Gern, others in Austria and Switzerland.
North German: in some cases, a nickname from Middle Low German gernēre ‘desiring person, beggar’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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