Brief Life History of Louis Joseph
When Louis Joseph Worm was born on 21 November 1893, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, his father, Ernest August Worm, was 29 and his mother, Dora Bell Shannon, was 18. He married Liddia Mae Marsh in 1916. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 6 December 1981, in Fort Calhoun, Washington, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States.
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- Louis Worm, "United States Census, 1940"
- Louis J Worm, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Louis Joseph Worm, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
German and Danish: variant of Wurm .
German: habitational name from a place so named near Aachen.
English: nickname from Middle English worm ‘serpent’, ‘dragon’ (Old English wyrm), also used as a general term for insects or worm-like creatures.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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