When Emil Hans Holts Ehlers was born on 27 September 1881, in Dinsdale, Tama, Iowa, United States, his father, Henning Ehlers, was 27 and his mother, Elisabeth Rosenkranz, was 19. He married Irene Strohbehn on 1 January 1907, in Traer, Tama, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Rural, Linn, Iowa, United States in 1935 and Black Hawk Township, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 6 November 1944, in Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 63.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Tama, Iowa, United States
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
North German: patronymic from Ehler or Ehlert .
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