Emilie Anne Grimm

Brief Life History of Emilie Anne

When Emilie Anne Grimm was born on 21 June 1905, in Norwood Park Township, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Emil Christian Grimm, was 34 and her mother, Anna Augusta Dreyer, was 30. She married Friedrich G Wille on 16 July 1930. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Wheeling, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Mount Prospect, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 August 1988, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mount Prospect, Cook, Illinois, United States.

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Friedrich G Wille
1905–1974
Emilie Anne Grimm
1905–1988
Marriage: 16 July 1930
Philip F Wille
1938–

Sources (11)

  • Emilie A Wille, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Emilie A Grimm, "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940"
  • Emilie Grimm, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"

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World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1919 · The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

During the Chicago race riot, which was raised by racial conflicts throughout Chicago, thirty-eight people died (23 black and 15 white) and over five hundred were injured. It is considered the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer and was the worst race riot in Illinois.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

German and Swiss German: nickname for a dour and forbidding individual, from Old High German grim ‘stern, severe’.

German and Swiss German: from an ancient Germanic personal name from grīma ‘mask, helmet’. This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 1 above) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).

English: from Middle English grim ‘fierce, grim’.

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

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