When Celia Bertha Schliep was born on 29 June 1900, in Appleton, Swift, Minnesota, United States, her father, Frank Frederick Schliep, was 30 and her mother, Lydia Bertha Amanda Krause, was 26. She married Walter Frederick Gruenwald about 1929, in Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Norman Township, Pine, Minnesota, United States in 1910 and Madison, New York, United States in 1920. She died on 3 January 1993, in Red Wing, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Red Wing, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
North German: occupational name for a grinder of knives, scissors, and the like, from Middle Low German slīpen ‘to grind or sharpen’. Compare Schleifer 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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