When Lawrence Erwin Asher was born on 25 November 1915, in Gary, Deuel, South Dakota, United States, his father, Francis Marion Asher, was 34 and his mother, Effie Pearl Padelford, was 32. He died on 25 December 1995, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery, Gary, Deuel, South Dakota, United States.
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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.
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
English (mainly southern): topographic name denoting someone living by an ash tree, from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ + the habitational suffix -er.
English: possibly from the Middle English personal name Ascher, a survival of the rare Old English name Æschere.
English: perhaps from the Anglo-Norman and Middle English personal name Asser, Atser (Old Norse Qzurr, Azur).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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