Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Kramer was born on 17 May 1880, in Dyersville, Dubuque, Iowa, United States, her father, Henry John Kramer Sr, was 22 and her mother, Christine Jasper, was 22. She married Hamilton Manley Leigh on 9 February 1904, in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 8 daughters. She lived in Dubuque, Iowa, United States in 1925 and New Wine Township, Dubuque, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 24 July 1961, at the age of 81, and was buried in Dyersville, Dubuque, Iowa, United States.
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- Mary A Leigh, "United States 1950 Census"
- Kramer, "Iowa, Marriage Records, 1941-1951"
- Mary Ann Kramer Leigh, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (mainly Krämer); Dutch: occupational name for a shopkeeper or trader, from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German krām ‘trading post, tent, booth’. This surname is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in Britain, Poland, and France (Alsace and Lorraine); see also 2 below. In part, Kramer is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Kraemer .
Americanized or Germanized form of Polish Kramarz , Czech Kramář, Slovak Kramár, Slovenian (compare 3 below), Croatian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Kramar .
Slovenian: variant of Kramar . Compare 2 above and Cramer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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