Brief Life History of William Oliver
When William Oliver Cramer was born in 1914, his father, Walter Eugene Cramer, was 22 and his mother, Beatrice E Suiter, was 19. He married Lillian May Boss on 2 April 1935, in Onondaga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States in 1950. He died on 17 April 1987, at the age of 73, and was buried in Altmar, Albion, Oswego, New York, United States.
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- William Cramer, "United States Census, 1950"
- William Oliver Cramer, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
- William Oliver Cramer, "Find A Grave Index"
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1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
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Name Meaning
German, Dutch, and Jewish: variant of Kramer ‘shopkeeper or trader’ and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. The surname in this form is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in Britain and France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine).
English: variant of Creamer 1.
Americanized form of Polish Kramarz , Czech Kramář, Slovak Kramár, Slovenian, Croatian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Kramar , and Slovenian Kramer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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