Brief Life History of Fredrick
When Fredrick Kern was born on 3 December 1888, in Russia, his father, Kasper Kern, was 26 and his mother, Mrs. Kasper Kern, was 22. He married Mrs Fredrick Kern about 1907, in Russia. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Soda Springs Election Precinct, Caribou, Idaho, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 6 July 1954, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Grove City Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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- Fredrick Kerns, "United States 1950 Census"
- Fred Kern, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Fred Kern, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1890
Idaho is the 43rd state.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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.
Name Meaning
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kerne ‘kernel, seed, pip’; Middle Dutch kern(e), keerne; German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a farmer, or a nickname for a physically small person. As a Jewish surname, it is mainly artificial.
English (southeastern): metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of milk churns, from Middle English kern, kirn, kurn, a side-form of chern ‘churn’. Compare Church .
Slovenian: nickname for a stunted person, from an old spelling of krn ‘stunted’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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