Brief Life History of Walter Edwin
When Walter Edwin Copper was born on 30 April 1878, in Utica, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States, his father, David Wooster Copper, was 27 and his mother, Phoebe Collins, was 26. He married Essie Pearl Crow on 25 December 1900, in Seneca, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Seneca, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years and Sampson, Chippewa, Wisconsin, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1978, in Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 100.
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- Walter Copper, "United States Census, 1940"
- Walter Copper, "Wisconsin Birth Index, 1820-1907"
- Walter Copper, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1883 · The Newhall House Hotel Fire
A fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English (Kent and Surrey): occupational name either from Middle English copere, a variant of cupere ‘cooper, maker or seller of casks, buckets, and tubs’, found late as copper, or from Middle English copper, cupper ‘maker of cups and small vessels’ (Old Norse koppari).
English: in Sussex and perhaps the adjacent counties, probably also a variant of Coppard, either from a Middle English (from Old French, Middle Dutch, or both) personal name Coppard (an extended form of Cop, a pet form of Jacob), or perhaps from Middle English cop(e), coppe ‘top, head’ + the pejorative suffix -ard, perhaps for someone with a large head.
Altered form of German Kopper .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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