Brief Life History of Homer Aaron
When Homer Aaron Winter was born on 20 October 1898, in Douglas, Nevada, United States, his father, John Jacob Winter, was 29 and his mother, Florence Elizabeth Abraham, was 24. He married Edna Emelie Hooper on 3 April 1920, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Edgewood, Siskiyou, California, United States in 1920 and Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, United States in 1930. He died on 26 September 1980, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 81.
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- Homer A Winter, "United States 1950 Census"
- Homer Aaron Winter, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
- Homer Winter, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English (Old English) personal name Winter (Old English Wintra), originally a nickname from the word for ‘winter’ and perhaps still a nickname (see 2 below) in the period of surname formation.
English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name from Middle English winter, a variant of Middle English, Anglo-Norman French viniter, vinter ‘wine merchant’.
Irish: Anglicized form (part translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla-Gheimhridh ‘son of the lad of winter’, from geimhreadh ‘winter’. This name is also Anglicized McAlivery.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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