When William Herman Gottfried was born on 21 June 1894, in Pomeroy, Salisbury Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States, his father, Anrad Godfrey, was 24 and his mother, Anna Bearhs, was 20. He married Myrtle May Allen on 8 August 1915, in Meigs, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Triadelphia, Ohio, West Virginia, United States in 1920. He died on 27 December 1973, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Prairie Grove Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Alois.
German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements god, got ‘god’ + frid(u) ‘peace’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name composed of German Gott ‘God’ + Friede ‘peace’, or an adoption of the German personal name (see 1 above) as a surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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