Brief Life History of Abraham Abram
When Abraham Abram Timmer was born on 3 December 1881, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, his father, Pieter Timmers, was 42 and his mother, Lena van Valkenburg, was 40. He married Ola May Buck on 23 December 1916. He died on 15 February 1968, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, at the age of 86.
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- Abraham Timers in household of Lena Timers, "United States Census, 1900"
- Abram Timmer, "Michigan Births, 1867-1902"
- Abraham Timmers, "Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925"
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World Events (8)
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1887 · The Bagley Memorial Fountain
The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit "water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream." H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, "TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII".
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
Dutch and North German: metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German timmer, timber ‘timber’.
North German: from a shortened form of Thiemer, a variant of Dittmar .
North German: habitational name from any of several places called Timmern in Lower Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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