When Elmer Recker was born on 31 March 1912, in Union Township, Putnam, Ohio, United States, his father, Fred Henry Recker, was 28 and his mother, Philomena Kleman, was 22. He lived in Putnam, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Ottawa, Putnam, Ohio, United States in 1930. He died on 29 March 1974, in Lebanon, Warren, Ohio, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Glandorf, Putnam, Ohio, United States.
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The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
The Seventeenth Amendment allows the people of each state to elect their own Senators instead of having the state legislature assign them.
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
North German, East Frisian, and Dutch: from a variant of the personal name Richard . This surname is very rare in East Frisia.
North German: topographic name from Middle Low German recke ‘stretch, route, hedge’, or a habitational name for someone from Recke, near Osnabrück.
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