Ralph Henry Maxham

Brief Life History of Ralph Henry

When Ralph Henry Maxham was born on 15 April 1901, in Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, Charles Joseph Maxham, was 35 and his mother, Eulalia Mary Perry, was 33. He married Hazel May Harris on 11 November 1922, in Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Hartford, Windsor, Vermont, United States in 1940. He died on 21 September 1970, in Quechee, Hartford, Windsor, Vermont, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Burns Cemetery, Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ralph Henry Maxham
1901–1970
Hazel May Harris
1903–1985
Marriage: 11 November 1922
Wilmer R Maxham
1935–2019

Sources (20)

  • Ralph H Marbom, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Ralph Maxham, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Ralph Maxham, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"

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World Events (8)

1902 · So Much Farm Land

A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

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.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

Name Meaning

English: probably from the personal name Maxim (Latin Maximus, from maximus ‘greatest’), altered by folk etymology to resemble an English habitational name.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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