When Dolores Marie Kramer was born on 4 April 1916, in Rhinelander, Oneida, Wisconsin, United States, her father, George Kramer, was 33 and her mother, Katharine Mary Wubker, was 29. She married George Ray Tweed on 7 July 1945, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 24 September 2005, in Bend, Deschutes, Oregon, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Eagle Point, Jackson, Oregon, United States.
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U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Thousands of soldiers were assigned to the U.S. Army Spruce Production Division to provide wood for airplanes and ships during World War I. Poor working conditions in 1917 caused the men to strike which slowed the logging production in the area. The demands of the strikers were rejected by the lumber companies. As the need was ever-present for lumber during the war, the government stationed soldiers to do the work. Over 230 spruce soldier camps were built and occupied throughout the Pacific Northwest at this time.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (mainly Krämer); Dutch: occupational name for a shopkeeper or trader, from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German krām ‘trading post, tent, booth’. This surname is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in Britain, Poland, and France (Alsace and Lorraine); see also 2 below. In part, Kramer is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Kraemer .
Americanized or Germanized form of Polish Kramarz , Czech Kramář, Slovak Kramár, Slovenian (compare 3 below), Croatian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Kramar .
Slovenian: variant of Kramar . Compare 2 above and Cramer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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