When Anna Mae Erickson was born on 4 January 1901, in Humboldt Township, Humboldt, Iowa, United States, her father, Lewis Marshall Erickson, was 34 and her mother, Mary Adelaide Steadman, was 25. She married George Osborne Musson on 6 March 1920, in Hamilton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Hardin, Iowa, United States in 1935 and Jackson Township, Boone, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. She died on 17 March 1991, in Iowa Falls, Hardin, Iowa, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls, Hardin, Iowa, United States.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Thor, Nils, Lars, Sven, Lief, Anders, Lennart, Iver, Elof, Erland.
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Ericsson and Eriksson , Norwegian, Danish, and North German Eriksen and Erichsen , or of any other Scandinavian or North German patronymic from a personal name derived from Old Norse Eiríkr, which is composed of ei ‘ever, always’ (or a shortened form of ein ‘one, only’) + rík ‘power’. Compare Ericksen , Ericson , and Erikson .
English (Lancashire): patronymic from the Middle English male personal name Eric (with the same etymology as 1 above) + son.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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