Brief Life History of Alvin Lee
When Alvin Lee Schutte was born on 12 November 1941, in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, his father, Fred Ludwig Schutte, was 26 and his mother, Edith Lucile Marr, was 21. He lived in Graham, Pierce, Washington, United States in 1993. He died on 10 February 1986, in Washington, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Lakewood, Pierce, Washington, United States.
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- Alvin Shutte, "United States 1950 Census"
- Birth Certificate: Elven Lee Schutte
- Alvin L Schutte, "Washington Death Index, 1965-2014"
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World Events (8)
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.
1948 · KING-TV
In 1948, KING-TV was the first TV station not just in Washington, but the whole Pacific Northwest. It is an NBC tv station licensed to Seattle and Tacoma.
1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
Name Meaning
North German (mainly Schütte): occupational name for an archer, from Middle Low German schutten ‘to shoot’. Compare Schuetz .
Dutch: variant of Schut , a cognate of 1 above.
Germanized form of Croatian and Slovenian Šute, and probably also of its cognate Šutej (see Shutey ). In part, it is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). The surname Šute has died out in Slovenia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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