When Clara Amalia Schliesser was born on 3 July 1882, in Adams Township, Defiance, Ohio, United States, her father, Johannes Schliesser, was 42 and her mother, Elizabeth Shumaker, was 33. She married Henry Frederick Gerken on 20 November 1902, in Defiance, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died about December 1955, at the age of 73, and was buried in Adams Township, Defiance, Ohio, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Some characteristic forenames: German Aloysius, Erwin, Hannes, Hans, Wolfgang.
German (Schlösser): occupational name for a locksmith, from an agent derivative of Middle High German sloz ‘lock’.
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