Brief Life History of Joseph Emmett
When Joseph Emmett Zimmerman was born on 17 December 1919, in Illinois, United States, his father, Joseph William Zimmerman, was 31 and his mother, Pearl E Lehmann, was 26. He lived in Cheneys Grove Township, McLean, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Saybrook, McLean, Illinois, United States in 2005. He died on 15 February 2007, at the age of 87, and was buried in Saybrook, McLean, Illinois, United States.
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Sources (7)
- Emmett Zimmerman in household of Joseph Zimmerman, "United States Census, 1920"
- Joseph E Zimmerman, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Joseph E Zimmerman, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1925 · Woman's World's Fair
The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
1942
On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Zimmermann , and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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