When Arnim August Kumm was born on 28 February 1920, in Bazile Mills, Knox, Nebraska, United States, his father, August Ernest Kumm Jr., was 25 and his mother, Clara Antonie Matilda Scheer, was 19. He married Florence L. Demien on 17 February 1943, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States in 2007 and Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 2007. He died on 19 August 2007, in Davey, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States.
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British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Some characteristic forenames: German Jochen, Reinhold.
North German: metonymic occupational name from Middle Low German kum 'round container, bowl’, also a nickname for someone who has a bowl-like shape.
Swiss German: topographic name for someone living in a valley, from Swiss German kumme ‘hollow’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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