Brief Life History of Ida Bell
When Ida Bell Kramer was born on 23 January 1874, in Peppertown, Salt Creek Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States, her father, Jacob Kramer, was 48 and her mother, Elisabeth Lawrence, was 41. She married Benjamin F. Perkett on 1 January 1897, in Franklin, Indiana, United States. She lived in Metamora, Metamora Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died in August 1904, at the age of 30.
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- Ida B Cramer in household of Jacob Cramer, "United States Census, 1880"
- Ida Bell Cramer, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- Ida Bell Cramer in entry for Benjamin F. Perkett, "Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (mainly Krämer); Dutch: occupational name for a shopkeeper or trader, from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German krām ‘trading post, tent, booth’. This surname is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in Britain, Poland, and France (Alsace and Lorraine); see also 2 below. In part, Kramer is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Kraemer .
Americanized or Germanized form of Polish Kramarz , Czech Kramář, Slovak Kramár, Slovenian (compare 3 below), Croatian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Kramar .
Slovenian: variant of Kramar . Compare 2 above and Cramer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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