Brief Life History of Madeline Margaret
When Madeline Margaret Besemann was born on 17 August 1901, in Albany, Stearns, Minnesota, United States, her father, Albert Ferdinand Besemann, was 38 and her mother, Anna Theresa Wimmer, was 36. She married Charles Albert Towsey on 1 January 1949. She lived in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States in 1935. She died on 15 April 1991, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Sources (16)
- Madeline Basemann in household of Anna Basemann, "United States Census, 1940"
- Web: Minnesota, Birth Index, 1900-1934
- Madeline M Besemann, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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World Events (8)
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1906 · The End of Capital Punishment
Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Heinz, Kurt, Manfred, Wolfgang.
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle Low German wese ‘meadow, pasture’ + man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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