Brief Life History of Catherine Jemima
When Catherine Jemima Hughes was born on 29 October 1904, in Brigham, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Robert Rowland Hughes, was 32 and her mother, Eunice Adelle Spears, was 31. She married Herbert "Herb" Walter Dahmer in 1933, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in West Allis, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States in 1940 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States in 1992. She died on 25 December 1992, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Highland Memorial Park, New Berlin, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Catherine Dahmer, "United States 1950 Census"
- Catherine Dahmer, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Catherine Jemima Hughes Dahmer, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1907 · Law Passed for Child Employment
The maximum hours for children to work were set to 55 per week.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s.
Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’, for example Ó hAodha, Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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