Oscar William Franklin

Brief Life History of Oscar William

When Oscar William Franklin was born on 11 April 1905, in Newburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Robert Franklin, was 32 and his mother, Alma Harriet Bechtel, was 24. He lived in Newburg, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States in 1985. He died on 11 January 1985, in Hopewell Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Otterbein, Lurgan Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Oscar William Franklin
1905–1985
Mary Elizabeth Culbertson
1907–1957

Sources (8)

  • Oscar W Franklin in household of John R Franklin, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Oscar Franklin, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Oscar W Franklin in entry for Ranklin and Mary Elizabeth, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

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.

1911

The Standard Oil Company had reached a point of almost complete monopoly, managing over 90% of oil flows in the United States. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was a large, integrated association that produced, transported, refined, and marketed the product. In 1911, the Supreme Court declared that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. As a result, it was split into 34 smaller companies.

1927

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

Name Meaning

English: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman, freeholder, land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general, he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.

Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, such as Frankel .

History: The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated c. 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.

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

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