When Michael E. Trimmer was born on 5 February 1890, in East Berlin, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Peter Meyers Trimmer, was 36 and his mother, Mary Ellen Ebersole, was 27. He married Kathleen May Haight on 2 July 1917. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Iron, Utah, United States in 1935 and Parowan Election Precinct, Iron, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 5 November 1975, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Parowan Cemetery, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
English (mainly Hampshire):
occupational name from Middle English trimmer, a derivative of the verb trimmen (Old English trymman) which had multiple meanings, including ‘to strengthen, confirm, make ready’. The modern sense ‘to cut, trim’ is not attested in Middle English literature, but it is possible that the surname was for someone who cut something, perhaps cloth.
perhaps occasionally from the Middle English personal name Triamor, of uncertain origin but found as the name of an Egyptian ruler in Alexandria in the medieval romance Guy of Warwick. It remained in use for many years in a Baldwin family from the Hertfordshire area.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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