Catherine Elizabeth Schwab

1913–1954 (Age 40)
Ely, White Pine, Nevada, United States

The Life of Catherine Elizabeth

When Catherine Elizabeth Schwab was born on 12 December 1913, in Ely, White Pine, Nevada, United States, her father, Fredrick Joseph Schwab, was 34 and her mother, Mathilda Louise Henrietta Asche, was 34. She died on 6 March 1954, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Protestant Cemetery, Ione, Amador, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Catherine Elizabeth Schwab
1913–1954
Raymond Arthur Butler
1883–1952

Spouse & Children

Parents & Siblings

siblings

(4)

  • Catherine Elizabeth Schwab

    Female1913–1954Female

  • Joseph Fredrick Schwab

    Male1915–1940Male

  • Marian Adeline Schwab

    Female1917–2006Female

  • Charles Edward Schwab

    Male1920–1920Male

World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Age 3

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.
1917

Age 4

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1927

Age 14

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): regional name for someone from Swabia (German Schwaben), from Middle High German Swāp, German Schwabe ‘Swabian’. The region takes its name from a Germanic tribe recorded from the 1st century bc in the Latin form Suebi or Suevi, of uncertain origin; it was an independent duchy from the 10th century until 1313 , when the territory was broken up.

Possible Related Names

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

Sources (1)

  • Katherine Schwab in household of Fred J Schwab, "United States Census, 1920"

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