Brief Life History of Herman
When Herman Rosenstein was born on 10 January 1894, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Meyer Rosenstein, was 26 and his mother, Mary Halperin, was 26. He married Sadie Cohen in 1916, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1940. He died in September 1968, in Essex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 74.
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- Herman J Rosenstein, "United States Census, 1940"
- Herman Rosenstein, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906"
- Herman Rosenstein, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1903
The Public Service Corporation (PSC) was formed on May 6, 1903. The company began as a merger of a power company with four different trolley companies. PSC would ultimately combine with over 400 other companies.
1916
During a deadly heat wave, thousands of residents were at the seaside resorts of Jersey Shore. Between July 1 and July 2 of 1916, five different people were attacked by sharks, and four of them ultimately died. Scientific knowledge about sharks was limited at this time, so these tragic incidents started a wave of "shark panic" that was spread by telephone calls, letters, newspapers, and other media.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Hyman, Anat, Aviva, Zwi, Ari, Avram, Mordechai, Rachmil, Yakob.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name compound from German Rosen- ‘rose’ + Stein ‘stone’.
German: habitational name from a place so named. As a component of placenames, stein ‘rock, stone’ typically signifies a stone structure such as a castle or house.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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