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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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.
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.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Egil, Eyvind, Sig, Arnt, Erik.
Swedish: ornamental name from quist, an old or ornamental spelling of kvist ‘twig’.
Danish: nickname for a thin man, from kvist ‘twig’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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