Brief Life History of Henry Paul
When Henry Paul Koutz was born on 31 January 1904, in Chrisney, Grass Township, Spencer, Indiana, United States, his father, Henry Phillip Koutz, was 21 and his mother, Jeannette Hickerson, was 17. He married Mildred Skorpa on 13 May 1922, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. He lived in Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, United States in 1935 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died in August 1957, at the age of 53.
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- Henry Hickerson in household of Paul Hickerson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Henry P. Koutz, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Henry Kontz in household of J A Hickerson, "United States Census, 1920"
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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.
1909 · The Ford Building
The Ford Building was one of the first high-rises to use a steel structural support system. It stands at 23 stories in total height and it held the title as tallest building in Detroit from 1908 until 1913.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
German: variant of Konz and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Americanized or Germanized form of Hungarian Koncz and Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Croatian, and Serbian Konc: from a Hungarized or Slavicized form of the German personal name Konz , a pet form of Konrad . In Slovakia, Serbia, and Croatia, the surname Konc is at least in part of Hungarian origin.
Americanized or Germanized form of Slovenian Konc: from an old pet form of the personal name Konrad ; or from a Slovenized form of the German cognate Konz (compare 2 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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