When Warren Francis Chisholm was born on 26 April 1911, in Paynesville, Stearns, Minnesota, United States, his father, Archibald Daniel Chisholm, was 38 and his mother, Jessie Viola Lawson, was 28. He married Doris May Dunn about 1938, in Arizona, United States. He lived in Stearns, Minnesota, United States in 1935 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 23 July 1985, in Morgan Hill, Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Paynesville, Stearns, Minnesota, United States.
Scottish: habitational name from Chisholme near Hawick in southern Scotland, which derives its name from Old English c̄se, cēse ‘cheese’ (from Latin caseus) + holm ‘piece of dry land in a fen’ and refers to a waterside meadow good for dairy farming and hence for producing cheeses. In the 14th century members of this family migrated to the Highlands, settling in Strathglass, where their name was Gaelicized as Siosal.
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