Brief Life History of Walter Wellington
When Walter Wellington Quirt was born on 24 November 1902, in Iron River, Iron, Michigan, United States, his father, Arthur Wellington Quirt, was 42 and his mother, Theresa Viola McDowell, was 29. He married Eleanor Falk in 1939. He lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1940 and Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1950. He died on 19 March 1968, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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- Walter W Quirt, "United States 1950 Census"
- Walter Quist, "Michigan Births, 1867-1902"
- Walter Quirt, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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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.
1906 · The End of Capital Punishment
Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Oona.
Manx and Irish (Munster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuirc ‘descendant of Corc’, a personal name from corc ‘heart’, or curc ‘tuft (of hair)’. The surname was sometimes Anglicized as Oates , due to erroneous derivation from the Irish word coirce ‘oats’. Alternatively, a shortened variant of McGuirk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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