When John Franklin Archer was born on 20 August 1893, in Summit Township, O'Brien, Iowa, United States, his father, John Holmes Archer, was 32 and his mother, Dora Belle Ballou, was 26. He married Edna Amalia Kuehl on 24 August 1916, in Sibley, Osceola, Iowa, United States. He lived in Sheldon, O'Brien, Iowa, United States in 1910. He died on 12 March 1938, in O'Brien, Iowa, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Primghar, O'Brien, Iowa, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English and French: from Middle English archere, Anglo-Norman French archer, Old French archier ‘bowman’, hence an occupational name for an archer. This Norman French word partially replaced the native English word bowman in the 14th century. In North America, this surname may have absorbed some cases of European cognates such as French Archier. Compare Larcher .
German: from an agent derivative of Old High German archa ‘mill-race’ (from Latin arca ‘chest, box’). This surname is rare in Germany.
Germanized form of Slovenian Arhar: German-influenced patronymic from the personal name Arh (see Arch 3), an old vernacular equivalent of Henry . Alternatively, perhaps a topographic name derived from Old High German archa ‘mill-race’ (see 2 above), hence a cognate of Slovenian Rakar (see Raker 4).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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