Maude Arnenia Helm

Brief Life History of Maude Arnenia

When Maude Arnenia Helm was born on 1 January 1879, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, her father, William Helm, was 41 and her mother, Francis "Fannie" Sawyer Newman, was 38. She married Milton Matthew Dearing in 1908, in Fresno, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in San Francisco, California, United States in 1880 and Judicial Township 3, Fresno, California, United States in 1940. She died on 10 December 1953, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Milton Matthew Dearing
1881–1955
Maude Arnenia Helm
1879–1953
Marriage: 1908
Jane Dearing
1914–2006
Dearing
1916–1916

Sources (19)

  • Maud H Dearing, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Hehn, "California, Birth Index, 1905-1995"
  • Maud Helm, "California, County Marriages, 1849-1957"

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World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire): from Old English helm ‘protection, covering’ (in later northern English dialects, ‘cattle shelter, barn’). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by or worked at a barn, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Helme in Meltham (Yorkshire).

English: variant of Elm with prosthetic H-.

German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of helmets, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch helm.

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

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