Frederick Clayton DuRocher

20 June 1905–16 February 1986 (Age 80)
Henderson, Sibley, Minnesota, United States

The Life Summary of Frederick Clayton

When Frederick Clayton DuRocher was born on 20 June 1905, in Henderson, Sibley, Minnesota, United States, his father, Fred Peter DuRocher, was 40 and his mother, Emily Marie Monroe, was 25. He lived in Stillwater, Washington, Minnesota, United States in 1910. He died on 16 February 1986, in Kerrville, Kerr, Texas, United States, at the age of 80.

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Frederick Clayton DuRocher
1905–1986
Ruby Lenore Crandall
1911–1998

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World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels
Age 1
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.
1906 · The End of Capital Punishment
Age 1
Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.
1927
Age 22
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

(1997: 964;2007: 1796; 2010: 2662)Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Fernand, Gilles, Marcel, Normand, Alain, Antoine, Armand, Bibiane, Emile, Emilien, Gaetan.French: topographic name from rocher ‘rock, crag, boulder’, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, denoting someone who lived in a rocky place; or a habitational name for someone from Le Rocher, the name of several places in various parts of France. Compare Derusha and Rocher .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Possible Related Names

Derusha

Sources (3)

  • Legacy NFS Source: Frederick Clayton DuRocher - Memory of Someone: Memory of a relative: birth: 22 June 1905; Henderson, Le Sueur, Minnesota, United States
  • Clayton D?-Rocher in household of Fred D?-Rocher, "United States Census, 1910"

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