Brief Life History of Henry Emil
When Henry Emil Winter was born on 11 July 1892, in Ford, Illinois, United States, his father, Carl Hermann Wilhelm Winter, was 38 and his mother, Helena J Witt, was 25. He married Lula Alvena Franks Winter on 10 January 1917, in Sibley, Ford, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Fairview Township, Hanson, South Dakota, United States for about 10 years and Sullivant Township, Ford, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. He died on 21 July 1979, in Ford, Illinois, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Sullivant Township, Ford, Illinois, United States.
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- Henry E Winter, "United States 1950 Census"
- Henry Winter, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Henry Emil Winters, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1893 · The World's Columbian Exposition
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
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.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English (Old English) personal name Winter (Old English Wintra), originally a nickname from the word for ‘winter’ and perhaps still a nickname (see 2 below) in the period of surname formation.
English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name from Middle English winter, a variant of Middle English, Anglo-Norman French viniter, vinter ‘wine merchant’.
Irish: Anglicized form (part translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla-Gheimhridh ‘son of the lad of winter’, from geimhreadh ‘winter’. This name is also Anglicized McAlivery.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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