Brief Life History of Cora Belle
When Cora Belle Hammer was born on 25 April 1878, in Princeville, Peoria, Illinois, United States, her father, Henry Hammer, was 43 and her mother, Emma Virginia Metzel, was 28. She married Joseph L. Garvin on 24 May 1899, in Scott, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Stephenson, Rock Island, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. She died on 8 January 1971, in Peoria, Illinois, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Princeville, Peoria, Illinois, United States.
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- Cora Garvin in household of Joseph Garvin, "United States Census, 1900"
- Unknown, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Cora Belle Hammer Harbers, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
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
German, English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German hamer, Yiddish hamer, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hammers, for example in a forge, or a nickname for a forceful person. As an English surname, the derivation from Middle English ham(m)er, hamor ‘hammer’ (Old English hamor) is formally possible, either as a metonymic occupational name or as a locative or occupational name taken from a shop sign or inn sign. However, there is no evidence that such appellations became hereditary surnames. The surname of German origin (possibly also in the sense 2 below) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
English and German: topographic name for someone who lived in an area of water meadow, or flat, low-lying alluvial land beside a stream, Middle English ham(me), Old English hamm, Old High German ham (see Hamm ) + the English and German agent suffix -er. In England, names composed of a topographic term + -er are characteristic of southern England, especially Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire.
English: possibly a variant of Hanmer , and in northern England a variant of Hamer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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