Brief Life History of Maurice Alvin
Maurice Alvin Sherman was born on 25 September 1917, in Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine, United States as the son of Ezra C Sherman and Ruth S Gray. He died on 31 March 2000, in Southport, Lincoln, Maine, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Southport Island, Tasmania, Australia.
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- Maurice A Sherman, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1918
Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1939
Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.
Name Meaning
English (London): occupational name denoting someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from Middle English sherman, shirman, sharman ‘shearman’.
Americanized form of North German Schürmann (see Schuermann ) and of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schermann .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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