Wilmer Ziegler Rutter

Brief Life History of Wilmer Ziegler

When Wilmer Ziegler Rutter was born on 9 June 1911, in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Harry C Rutter, was 37 and his mother, Sarah M Ziegler, was 34. He married Gladys Rose Dawes on 28 September 1938, in Yuma, Arizona, United States. He lived in East Greenville, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Catalina Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 1 December 1996, in Avalon, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Avalon Cemetery, Avalon, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Wilmer Ziegler Rutter
1911–1996
Gladys Rose Dawes
1916–2002
Marriage: 28 September 1938

Sources (4)

  • Wilmer Z Rutter, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Wilmer Ziegler Rutter, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
  • Wilmer Ruther in household of Harry C Ruther, "United States Census, 1930"

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1912 · The Girl Scouts

Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.

1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary

Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963. 

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Old French roteor, roteeur, routeeur ‘player on the rote’, a musical instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. The regular modern development of the name would have been to Roter (rhyming with boater), and to Router or Rowter (rhyming with doubter). These variants survive in small numbers, but the principal modern form is Rutter, found in fairly large numbers across England, especially in the northeast and in the West Midlands. The shortened vowel in Rutter may have been influenced by rotte, rutte, Middle English variants of Old French rote. Compare Root 2.

English: nickname from Middle English roter, rotour ‘robber, plunderer’, also ‘scoundrel, lecher’, a borrowing of Old French rotier, Anglo-Norman French routier ‘soldier of fortune; robber, highwayman, ruffian’, though this is a less likely source of the modern surname.

Dutch: nickname from Middle Dutch rut(t)er ‘freebooter, footpad’, cognate with 2 above.

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

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