When Clara Marie Rosenkranz was born on 23 July 1913, in Denver, Colorado, United States, her father, Carl August Daniel Rosenkranz, was 54 and her mother, Elise Luise Ida Bertha Jürgens, was 40. She married John Nielsen on 21 May 1932, in Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Welby, Adams, Colorado, United States in 1920 and Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States in 1950. She died on 28 July 1981, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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On April 20, 1914, the Colorado national Guard and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards, attacked striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 25 people, including miners, women, and children.
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 Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Some characteristic forenames: German Fritz, Kurt, Hans, Helmut, Otto, Wessel.
German and Danish: from Middle Low German rōsenkranz ‘wreath, rosary’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a wreath or rosary maker, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a wreath or in a place called with this word. This surname is also found in the Netherlands (see Rosenkrans ), where it is very rare. See also Rosenkrantz .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): adoption of the German surname (see 1 above), or an artificial name from the German word Rosenkranz ‘wreath’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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