Brief Life History of Howard
When Howard Zink was born in 1923, in Michigan, United States, his father, Frank Zink, was 39 and his mother, May Crowton, was 31. He lived in Oak Park, Oakland, Michigan, United States in 1930.
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- Howard Zink in household of Frank Zink, "United States Census, 1940"
- Howard Zink in household of Frank Zink, "United States Census, 1930"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights
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1954 · Worlds Largest Christmas Store
Wally Bronner opened what would become the world's largest Christmas Store in 1954 as a result of successfully creating custom Christmas panels for city lampposts. Since then, the Frankenmuth store has expanded to a 27 acre landscaped lot with over 50,000 Christmas related items in his store. Bronner's attracts over two million guests per year.
Name Meaning
German: from Middle High German zinke ‘peak’, acquired either as a topographic name by someone who lived on or near a crag or on a pointed piece of land or as a nickname for a man with a singularly pointed nose. Compare modern German slang Zinken ‘hooter, nose’. The same word was used to denote the cornet, although the semantic development is not clear, and the surname may sometimes have been metonymic for a player of this instrument. It was not until the 16th century that the metal zinc was discovered and named (apparently from its jagged appearance in the furnace), so this is unlikely to be the origin of the surname.
German: from the old personal name Jacinctus, which derives from Hyacinthus, a Christian saint's name (see Jacinto ). Compare Sink .
In some cases also a Germanized or Americanized form of Czech and Slovenian Cink .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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