When Thomas Spelich was born on 12 September 1919, in Copper City, Houghton, Michigan, United States, his father, Joseph Spelich, was 29 and his mother, Virginia Cencich, was 22. He married Eleanor PUTANSU on 31 December 1943. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Houghton, Michigan, United States in 1930. He died on 26 September 2003, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States, at the age of 84.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
German:
metonymic occupational name for a spoke maker, from Middle High German speiche ‘spoke’.
from Middle High German speich ‘spittle’, perhaps a nickname for someone who tended to produce a spray of spittle when speaking.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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