Brief Life History of Collins William
When Collins William Hannum was born on 17 April 1891, in Iowa, United States, his father, Alva Elwood Hannum, was 30 and his mother, Cecilia Pratt, was 27. He married Elda May Halverson about 1912, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1935 and Inglewood Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 10 May 1974, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 83.
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- Hannum in household of Daniel E Hartwell, "United States Census, 1940"
- Collins Hannum, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Collie William Hannum, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1892 · The Masonic Temple Building
The Masonic Temple Building was a skyscraper built in Chicago and from 1895 to 1920 it was the tallest building in Chicago. The building featured a central court surrounded by shops on nine floors. On top of the shops there were meeting rooms that were also used as theaters. In 1939 the Masonic Temple was demolished, and a Walgreens drug store was erected in its place.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English (Wiltshire):
habitational name from Old Norse afnám ‘newly enclosed plot taken from common or undeveloped land’, a frequent minor placename in northern counties, e.g. Avenham Park in Preston (Lancashire) and Aynhems in Rimington (Yorkshire), sometimes with prosthetic H-, as in Haynholme in Draughton (Yorkshire).
habitational name from Hanham (Gloucestershire), from Old English hānum ‘(at) the stones’, dative plural form of hān ‘stone’. The ending -ham comes by analogy with other placenames with this very common unstressed ending.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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