Sylvan Samuel Ash

Brief Life History of Sylvan Samuel

When Sylvan Samuel Ash was born on 22 August 1893, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Willis Cope Ash, was 29 and his mother, Minnie Maude Grove, was 23. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Anna Rae Berger. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died in December 1979, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, at the age of 86.

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Family Time Line

Sylvan Samuel Ash
1893–1979
Anna Rae Berger
1899–1983
Ada Pearl Ash
1922–2004
Esther M Ash
1924–
Sylvan Samuel Ash
1925–2012

Sources (9)

  • Sylvan S Ash, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Sylvan S. Ash, "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
  • Sylvan Samuel Ash, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

World Events (8)

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1910 · Battleship USS Delaware Commissioned

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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ (Old English æsc), hence a topographic name for someone living by an ash tree or a habitational name from any of the many places in southern and central England named with this word (Derbyshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Kent, Surrey, Shropshire, Somerset, and elsewhere).

Americanized form of German Asch and Esch , the latter ultimately also of Swiss German origin (see Oesch ).

Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dufresne , with the same meaning as 1 above.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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