When Earnest Robert Workman was born on 1 May 1881, in South Gower Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, William John Workman, was 32 and his mother, Margaret A Tripp, was 31. He married Laura Theresa Curl on 16 August 1906, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Michigan, United States in 1941 and lived in Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America in 1891 and Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1910. He died on 7 November 1965, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Lake Michigan, Oceana, Michigan, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
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.
English (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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