Brief Life History of Richard Janssen
When Richard Janssen Chalmers was born on 24 August 1930, in Hilo, Hawaii, Hawaii, United States, his father, Robert Wallace Chalmers Sr, was 36 and his mother, Henrietta Dorothea Johanna Janssen, was 27. He married Joan Lyman Padgett on 16 June 1952, in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States. He lived in Sunnyvale, Dunedin, New Zealand in 1965. He died on 15 June 2013, in Roseville, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in O'ahu Cemetery, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.
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- Richard Chalmers in household of Robert W Chalmers, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Richard Janssen Chalmers - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Richard Janssen Chalmers
- Richard Janssen Chalmers, "Find A Grave Index"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1931 · The Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
1953
Sherpa Tenzing and New Zealander Sir Edmund Hilary are the first to conquer Mount Everest.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from Older Scots chalmer ‘chamberlain’; compare Chambers . The mb was assimilated to mm; the l was purely graphic, indicating that the preceding a was long.
English: possibly a localized form of Challinor (see Challender ), with dissimilation of ln to lm in Chalner.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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