Brief Life History of Walter Albert
When Walter Albert Schuster was born on 24 December 1889, in Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Ernst Wilhelm Friedrich Schuster, was 28 and his mother, Lina Bertha Hintzman, was 24. He married Elizabeth Katherine LaCoste on 22 October 1913, in Floyd, Floyd, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Floyd, Floyd, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Rudd, Floyd, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died on 21 September 1960, at the age of 70, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Rudd, Floyd, Iowa, United States.
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- Walter A Schuster, "United States 1950 Census"
- Walter Schuster, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Walter Albert Schuster, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1907 · Law Passed for Child Employment
The maximum hours for children to work were set to 55 per week.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Helmut, Alois, Ernst, Manfred, Arno, Franz, Fritz, Gerhard.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a maker or repairer of shoes, Middle High German schuochsūtære (a compound of schuoch ‘shoe’ + sūtære ‘one who sews’), German Schuster, Yiddish shuster. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and in some central European countries, especially in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see 2 below). In part, Schuster is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Shuster .
Germanized form of Czech Šustr and Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Šuster, surnames of German origin (see above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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