Laura M Leonard

Brief Life History of Laura M

When Laura M Leonard was born about 1877, in Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, United States, her father, Austin Bernard Leonard, was 34 and her mother, Lena M. Hauer, was 25. She married Albert Friedrich Bomka on 10 September 1896, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.

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Albert Friedrich Bomka
1876–
Laura M Leonard
1877–
Marriage: 10 September 1896

Sources (4)

  • Laura M Leonard in household of Austin B Leonard, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Laura Leonard, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
  • Laura Leonard, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940"

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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed

Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.

Name Meaning

English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .

Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .

German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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