When Abraham Fransen was born on 31 July 1900, in Center Township, Sioux, Iowa, United States, his father, Dirk Jan Fransen, was 33 and his mother, Wilhelmina Van Roekel, was 22. He married Mary G Walrath on 20 March 1926, in Sioux, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Allison Township, Osceola, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Holman, Osceola, Iowa, United States in 1930. He died on 12 August 1986, in Sibley, Osceola, Iowa, United States, at the age of 86.
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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.
Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Knute, Nels, Sig.
Dutch, Flemish, North German, Danish, and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Frans , an equivalent of Francis . This surname is very rare in Norway. Compare Franssen .
Swedish (Fransén): from the personal name Frans (see Francis ) + the adjectival suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius ‘relating to’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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