Brief Life History of Emil Vincent
When Emil Vincent Oswald was born on 19 July 1893, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Michael Oswald, was 45 and his mother, Helena Bonakowski, was 33. He married Mary Gordina "Mae" Zimmerman on 17 September 1914, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Kern, California, United States in 1930 and Boron, Kern, California, United States in 1950. He died on 13 February 1985, in Siskiyou, California, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Mount Shasta, Siskiyou, California, United States.
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- Emil V Oswald, "United States 1950 Census"
- Emil Vincent Oswald, "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949"
- Emil V Oswald, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1897 · The Union Loop Elevated
The Loop was born in political scandal that combined the three elevated railways around Chicago and combined them into one. The scandal was to raise the fares for commuters so state legislators could receive more money while in office.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Fife and Lanarkshire), northern English, German, and French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine): from an Old English personal name composed of the elements ōs ‘god’ + weald ‘power’. In the Middle English period, this fell together with the less common Old Norse cognate Ásvaldr. The name was introduced to Germany from England, as a result of the fame of Saint Oswald, a 7th-century king of Northumbria, whose deeds were reported by Celtic missionaries to southern Germany. The name was also borne by a 10th-century English saint of Danish parentage, who was important as a monastic reformer. Veneration of Saint Oswald, the king, spread from the German lands to the neighbouring Slavic lands as well. The surname in the (German) spelling Oswald is thus also found especially in Czechia and Slovakia, while in North America it also absorbed various Slavic forms (see 3 below).
Irish (Down): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa (see Hussey 1).
Americanized form of Slovenian, Slovak, and Czech Osvald, Slovenian and Slovak Ožvald or Ozvald, and probably also of Slovenian Ožbolt: from vernacular forms of the German personal name Oswald, of Old English origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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