Brief Life History of Margaret Elizabeth
When Margaret Elizabeth Schaffer was born on 10 August 1908, in Michigan, United States, her father, Charles Anderson Schaffer, was 25 and her mother, Mabel Alice Thompson, was 27. She married Donald Stimson Vosler on 7 October 1927. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States for about 20 years. She died on 30 March 1986, at the age of 77, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.
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- Margaret E Vosler, "United States Census, 1950"
- Margaret E Schaffer, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940"
- Margaret Schaffer Vosler, "Michigan, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1910 · Upper Twin Falls Bridge
The Upper Twin Falls Bridge which connected Breitung Township, Michigan, to Florence County, Wisconsin. The through-truss bridge spanned the Menominee River and was completed in 1910. The bridge was closed to through traffic in 1971 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
German: occupational name for a steward or bailiff, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schaffen ‘to manage’. It is also found in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), Hungary, Denmark, Czechia, Slovakia, and Slovenia; see also 3 below.
South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (Schäffer): variant of Schäfer (see Schaefer ). It is also found in Hungary, Denmark, Czechia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Compare Cheffer , Schaeffer , Shaeffer , Shafer , Shaffer , and Sheaffer .
Germanized form of Hungarian Sáfár, Slovenian and Croatian Šafar or Šafer, Czech Šafář or Šafer, Slovak Šafár, cognates of 1 above (see Safar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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