When Emma Rella Stump was born on 18 December 1881, in Miller Township, Perry, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob David Stump, was 58 and her mother, Margaret Mary Swartz, was 43. She married Samuel Edgar Boyer on 22 April 1897, in Duncannon, Perry, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 12 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Penn Township, Perry, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Wheatfield Township, Perry, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. She died on 28 June 1944, in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Hill Church Cemetery, New Buffalo, Perry, Pennsylvania, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
English and German: from Middle Low German stump ‘tree stump’ (borrowed into Middle English), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent tree stump, or else a nickname for a short, stocky person.
German: nickname from Middle High German stumpf ‘maimed, mentally incompetent’ for a dull or inexperienced person.
German (mainly northern and central): variant of Stumm .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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