Brief Life History of Alvin Millard
When Alvin Millard Oyler was born on 6 August 1885, in Franklin Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Wesley David Oyler, was 41 and his mother, Caroline Elmira Arendt, was 31. He married Mary Helen Ommert on 5 January 1926, in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Swatara Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Dauphin, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 19 June 1951, in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Lemasters, Peters Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Alvin M Oyler, "United States Census, 1950"
- Legacy NFS Source: Alvin Oyler - Government record: birth-name: Alvin Oyler
- Alvin M Oyler, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English (Kent): occupational name for an extractor or seller of oil, from Old French olier, huilier (from Latin oleum ‘(olive) oil’) ‘maker or seller of oil’ (i.e. vegetable oil, for lighting or cooking). In northern England linseed oil obtained from locally grown flax was more common than olive oil.
English: possibly a variant of Ollier, itself a variant of Hollier or derived from the Old French personal name Oillard (ancient Germanic Odilard, Oilard, from othil- ‘land, possession’ + hard- ‘hard, brave’).
Americanized form of German Euler . Compare Oiler .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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