Brief Life History of Esther
When Esther Hamm was born on 5 April 1896, in Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Gilmore S. Hamm, was 45 and her mother, Belle Hess, was 34. She married ?. She lived in Beaver Township, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Knox, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. She died on 24 August 1917, at the age of 21, and was buried in Knox Union Cemetery, Knox, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Esther M. Hamm in household of Gilbert Hamm, "United States Census, 1900"
- Hamm, "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
- Esther M. Hamm, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English (London): topographic name for someone who lived at a place called from Middle English ham(me), hom(me) (Old English hamm), which meant ‘land in a river bend’, ‘land hemmed in by marshland’, ‘wet land hemmed in by higher ground’, ‘river meadow’, or ‘cultivated plot on the edge of woodland or moor’. The topographic term is found mainly in the South Midlands and southern England. There are many farmsteads with this name in Devon and Sussex, five more substantial settlements called Ham or Hamp in Somerset, as well as East and West Ham in Essex, and places called Ham in Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey, and Wiltshire. This form of the surname is also comparatively frequent in Ireland.
German: topographic name for someone who lived on land in a river bend, Old High German ham (see 1 above).
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of numerous places called Hamm, mainly the city in Westphalia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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