Harry Kern was born on 4 January 1897, in Bedford, Shawswick Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States. He married Carrie Alice Clampitt on 21 May 1919, in Lawrence, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Shawswick Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States in 1940 and Shawswick, Shawswick Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 23 March 1969, in Lawrence, Indiana, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Pinhook, Lawrence, Indiana, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kerne ‘kernel, seed, pip’; Middle Dutch kern(e), keerne; German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a farmer, or a nickname for a physically small person. As a Jewish surname, it is mainly artificial.
English (southeastern): metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of milk churns, from Middle English kern, kirn, kurn, a side-form of chern ‘churn’. Compare Church .
Slovenian: nickname for a stunted person, from an old spelling of krn ‘stunted’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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