Brief Life History of Abram Beemer
When Abram Beemer Dunning III was born on 4 May 1898, in Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Abram Beemer Dunning Jr, was 45 and his mother, Edna Mary Sears, was 35. He married Daisy Evelyn Wedge on 2 August 1916, in Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Election Precinct 50, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1940. He died on 19 January 1974, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States.
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- Abram B Dunning, "United States 1950 Census"
- Abram Beemer Dunning, "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
- Abram Beemer Dunning, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place called Dunning in Lower Strathearn (Perthshire), recorded in 1200 as Dunine and later as Dunyn, from Gaelic dùnan, a diminutive of dùn ‘fort’.
English: variant of Downing .
Irish: variant of Dineen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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