Elmer Stackhouse King

Brief Life History of Elmer Stackhouse

When Elmer Stackhouse King was born on 18 September 1897, in Mount Olive, Mount Olive Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States, his father, Elmer King Sr., was 26 and his mother, Ellen Elizabeth Stackhouse, was 25. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Alice D. Dimick. He lived in Morristown, Morris Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States in 1940 and Morris Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1918. He died in 1975, in New Jersey, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Stanhope Union Cemetery, Morris, New Jersey, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elmer Stackhouse King
1897–1975
Alice D. Dimick
1896–1960
Phyllis King
1928–2011
Elmer King
1930–1999
Robert King
1933–1992

Sources (16)

  • Elmer King, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Elmer Stackhouse King, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
  • Elmer King, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1903

The Public Service Corporation (PSC) was formed on May 6, 1903. The company began as a merger of a power company with four different trolley companies. PSC would ultimately combine with over 400 other companies.

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

Name Meaning

English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.

English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.

Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable (which means ‘king’ in Irish).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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