Brief Life History of Richard D
When Richard D Strasser was born on 17 January 1924, in Indiana, United States, his father, Sylvester John Strasser, was 24 and his mother, Agnes L Niedermeyer, was 28. He married Rita Marie Vetter on 2 October 1948, in Defiance, Ohio, United States. He lived in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 6 May 1989, at the age of 65, and was buried in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States.
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- Richard Strasser in household of Sylvester Strasser, "United States Census, 1940"
- Richard E Strasser, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Richard D Strasser, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Mathias, Alois, Arno, Christoph, Franz, Gerhard, Gunter, Jurgen, Klaus, Otto.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone living by a main street or highway, from Middle High German strasse, German Strasse ‘street, road’. This form of the surname is also found in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is also spelled Štrasser. Compare Strausser and Strawser .
In some cases also a Germanized form of Slovenian Stražar (from stražar, an occupational name for a sentinel) or a German translation of Slovenian Cestnik (see Cesnik ) or Cestar, cognates of 1. This can also be an Americanized or Germanized form of Slovenian Štraser, itself of German origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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