When George E Lappin was born on 4 May 1884, in Lake City, Barber, Kansas, United States, his father, John Wesley Lappin, was 40 and his mother, Sarah Rosetta Reed, was 30. He married Lillie May Estella Sebring on 3 January 1922, in Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Galena Township, Woods, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and Keenesburg, Weld, Colorado, United States for about 33 years. He died on 5 November 1953, in Craig, Moffat, Colorado, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Linn Grove Cemetery, Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1889: Routt, Colorado, United States 1911: Moffat, Colorado, United States
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Irish: from Ó Lapáin ‘descendant of Lapán’, perhaps a nickname from lapán ‘little fist’. Sometimes Anglicized as Delap or Delapp in Ireland.
English: from the Middle English personal name Lapin, possibly a nickname for a timid person, from Old French lapin ‘rabbit’, or it may be a derivative of Old English læppa ‘lap (of a garment)’, ‘sleeve’, ‘small strip of cloth or hide’, ‘person's lap or bosom’, ‘flap of flesh’, ‘piece of land at the edge of an estate’, but what sense the derived term might have when used as a surname is unclear.
Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Lapin .
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