Brief Life History of Alma May
When Alma May Tanner was born on 18 May 1899, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, John Edger Tanner, was 35 and her mother, Mabel Elizabeth Beggs, was 25. She married Orville Grant Cooper on 15 May 1920. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Crawford, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Willow, Richland, Wisconsin, United States in 1940. She died in 1965, in Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 66.
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- Alma M Tanner in household of Vern C Morgan, "United States Census, 1920"
- Alma May Tanner Cooper Landsinger, "Find A Grave Index"
- Alma Tanner Cooper in entry for Gordon Edward Cooper, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1907 · Law Passed for Child Employment
The maximum hours for children to work were set to 55 per week.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English (southern) and Dutch: occupational name for a tanner of skins, Middle English tanner, Middle Dutch taenre. The Middle English form derives from Old English tannere, from Late Latin tannarius, reinforced by Old French taneor, from Late Latin tannator; both Late Latin forms derive from a verb tannare, possibly from a Celtic word for the oak, whose bark was used in the process.
German: topographic name from Middle High German tan ‘woods, pine forest’ for someone who lived near such terrain.
German: habitational name for someone from any of several places called Tanne (in the Harz Mountains, Bavaria, East Prussia, Switzerland) or Tann (Hesse, Bavaria), Thann (Bavaria, Austria, Alsace), Tannen (southern Germany, Switzerland), Thannen (Bavaria).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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