Clarence Howard Hamel

Brief Life History of Clarence Howard

When Clarence Howard Hamel was born on 27 August 1913, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, his father, Albert Otto Hamel, was 32 and his mother, Annie Louise Rick, was 26. He married Wanda Eloise Crowley on 4 September 1939, in Coos, Oregon, United States. He lived in East Brownsville Election Precinct, Linn, Oregon, United States in 1930. He died on 7 March 1994, in Grand Ronde, Polk, Oregon, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Green Crest Memorial Park, Sheridan, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.

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Clarence Howard Hamel
1913–1994
Wanda Eloise Crowley
1917–2005
Marriage: 4 September 1939

Sources (8)

  • Clarance H Hamel in household of Albert O Hamel, "United States Census, 1930"
  • C Howard Hamel, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Oregon, U.S., Marriage Indexes, 1906-2009

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World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

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.

1917 · The U.S. Army Spruce Production Division

Thousands of soldiers were assigned to the U.S. Army Spruce Production Division to provide wood for airplanes and ships during World War I. Poor working conditions in 1917 caused the men to strike which slowed the logging production in the area. The demands of the strikers were rejected by the lumber companies. As the need was ever-present for lumber during the war, the government stationed soldiers to do the work. Over 230 spruce soldier camps were built and occupied throughout the Pacific Northwest at this time. 

1935 · The FBI is Established

The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Lucien, Normand, Andre, Jacques, Fernand, Aime, Aubert, Cecile, Marcel, Michel, Raoul.

English, Scottish, and Irish (Louth): variant of Hamill .

French: topographic name for someone who lived and worked at an outlying farm dependent on the main village, Old French hamel (a diminutive from an ancient Germanic element cognate with Old English hām ‘homestead’); or a habitational name from (Le) Hamel, the name of several places in the northern part of France, named with this word. Compare Duhamel and also Amell .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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