Brief Life History of Helen C
When Helen C Fisher was born on 16 December 1919, her father, Fred E Buker, was 34 and her mother, Emma Stadler, was 25. She had at least 2 daughters with Bernard T Davis. She lived in Coeymans, Albany, New York, United States in 1930. She died on 20 August 2007, at the age of 87, and was buried in Albany, Albany, New York, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Helen S Buker in household of Fred E Buker, "United States Census, 1930"
- Helen C Buker Fisher, "Find A Grave Index"
- Helen C Fisher Davis in entry for Colonie Bernard T or Barney Davis, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1920
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .
English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.
Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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