Brief Life History of William Charles Harding
When William Charles Harding Heckmann was born on 18 June 1894, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William Jacob Heckmann, was 32 and his mother, Mary Jane Harding, was 37. He married Emma Olivea Anderson on 20 June 1923. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Providence, Cache, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 25 April 1992, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- William C. Hackmann, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Charles Harding Heckmann, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- William Charles Heckmann, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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World Events (8)
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.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Klaus, Dieter, Erwin, Ewald, Gerhard, Kurt, Manfred, Wilhelm.
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a hedge or by the boundary of an enclosure or who owned an enclosed lot in the forest, from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’ (see Heck 1) + man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life Sketch of William Charles Harding Heckmann
I was brought into this world on June 18, 1894 in such a shape that I was discarded by the doctor as worthless. He directed his efforts to saving my mother who had been through quite an ordeal. My gra …
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