When Frank Campbell Schlappi was born on 27 July 1900, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, his father, Veralian Augustus William Schlappi, was 46 and his mother, Myrtle Jane Campbell, was 24. He married Ada Leona Wheeler on 2 January 1925, in Oneida, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 50 Marshfield South 3, Coos, Oregon, United States in 1940 and North Bend, Coos, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 25 October 1969, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
The first U.S. primary elections were held in Oregon in 1911.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Some characteristic forenames: German Oskar.
Swiss German (Schläppi): nickname for someone with a dangling, baggy cap or hood, from Middle High German slappe ‘baggy, hanging headdress’, also for a lazy person. Compare Slappey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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