When Jennie Eva Kunkel was born in 1886, in Alma, Harlan, Nebraska, United States, her father, John Quincy Adams Kunkle, was 40 and her mother, Martha H Parker, was 39. She married Fred Baker Jones on 28 December 1905, in Harlan, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Orleans, Harlan, Nebraska, United States in 1910 and Oxford, Furnas, Nebraska, United States in 1930. She died in 1939, at the age of 53.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
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.
German:
from Middle High German kunkel ‘spindle, distaff’ (from Late Latin conicula, conucula diminutive of conus ‘cone, peg’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of spindles or a spinner or alternatively a nickname for a tall thin person.
from a medieval German personal name, a pet form of Kuno (see Kuhn ).
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