Brief Life History of Margaret Ruth
When Margaret Ruth Shipman was born on 13 January 1904, in Colorado, United States, her father, Harry Lee Shipman, was 26 and her mother, Henrietta Mary Fenwick, was 31. She married John Simerwell Carter about 1928. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Chanute, Neosho, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Mission Township, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 20 March 1985, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Shawnee, Kansas, United States.
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- Margaret Shipman in household of Harry L Shipman, "Kansas State Census, 1925"
- Margaret Carter, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Margaret R Shipman in household of Harry L Shipman, "United States Census, 1920"
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World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
1909 · Garden of the Gods Park
In 1879, railroad tycoon, Charles Elliott Perkins bought 240 acres whrere The Garden of the Gods is located, and planned to use it as a summer home. Perkins died in 1907 before he could establish it as a public park. Perkin's children donated the now 480 acres to the city of Colorado Springs, to become a public park.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a boatman or mariner, or perhaps for a boatbuilder, from Middle English schipman ‘ship man’.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English schep, ship ‘sheep’ + -man.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Schepman or of its already extinct variant Schipman, cognates of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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