Brief Life History of Kenneth Paul
Kenneth Paul Scherer was born on 23 July 1931, in Union City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States. He died on 11 December 2016, in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States, at the age of 85.
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World Events (3)
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1933
"New Jersey was severely impacted by the Great Depression. In response to the economic woes of the country, President Franklin D Roosevelt issued a series of programs and regulations referred to as the ""New Deal"". One-tenth of the New Jersey population was already using New Deal programs by 1933."
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a sheep-shearer or someone who used scissors to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from Middle High German scherer, German Scherer, Yiddish sherer, agent derivatives of Middle High German scheren ‘to shear’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Sharer 2, Sharrer , and Shearer 2.
Dutch and Flemish: cognate of 1 above, from Middle Dutch sc(h)errer ‘cutter’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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