Brief Life History of Emily Lisetta
When Emily Lisetta Traub was born on 22 December 1878, in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States, her father, Gottlieb Traub, was 36 and her mother, Maria "Mary" Wilhemine Aumann, was 32. She married Joseph Francis Merrill on 29 June 1918, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. She lived in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States for about 8 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 29 September 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Emily Traub, "United States Census, 1910"
- Emily Lisette Frank, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
- Emily Traub Merrill, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Egon, Ewald, Frieda, Gerda, Irmgard, Juergen, Reinhold, Volker.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a wine-grower, from Middle High German trūbe ‘bunch of grapes’, German Traube. In some cases the German name may originally have been habitational, from a house marked with the sign of a bunch of grapes, while the Jewish surname was often an adoption of the German surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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