Brief Life History of Grace Jane
When Grace Jane Cramer was born on 22 September 1915, in Wausau, Marathon, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Wilbert Arthur Cramer, was 28 and her mother, Angelina Theresa Sloan, was 25. She married Jon Leo Blume on 26 January 1939, in Wausau, Marathon, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Wayne, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940 and Donelson, Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1950. She died on 10 September 1975, at the age of 59.
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- Unknown, "United States 1950 Census"
- Grace G. Camer in entry for James Karl Blume, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
- Grace Jane Cramer in household of Wilbert A Cramer, "United States Census, 1920"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1919 · Minimum Wage Laws Passed
The first minimum wage law took effect in 1919 and specified women and children under 17 years of age should be paid 22 cents per hour.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
German, Dutch, and Jewish: variant of Kramer ‘shopkeeper or trader’ and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. The surname in this form is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in Britain and France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine).
English: variant of Creamer 1.
Americanized form of Polish Kramarz , Czech Kramář, Slovak Kramár, Slovenian, Croatian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Kramar , and Slovenian Kramer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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