When Paul Leroy Abner was born on 20 November 1911, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, his father, Warren Leroy Abner, was 28 and his mother, Sylvia Elsie Bowler, was 27. He married Eugenia Marie Cooke on 10 July 1942, in Yamhill, Oregon, United States. He lived in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1920 and North Bend, Coos, Oregon, United States in 1930. He died on 24 March 1984, in Newberg, Yamhill, Oregon, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Saint Paul Catholic Cemetery, St. Paul, Marion, Oregon, United States.
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Women were granted the right to vote in Oregon on November 5, 1912, with 52% of male voters in favor.
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English: from a Biblical personal name, meaning in Hebrew ‘God is (my) light’, which was popular among the Puritans, especially among early settlers in New England, but also in the southern states. In the First and Second Books of Samuel, Abner is Saul's uncle and the commander of his army, who is eventually cut down by Joab (II Samuel 3:12–39). This surname is very rare in Britain.
Probably also an Americanized form of German Ebner .
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