Brief Life History of Adeline Wihelmina
When Adeline Wihelmina Becker was born on 11 January 1887, in Grafton, Walsh, North Dakota, United States, her father, George Becker, was 38 and her mother, Charlotta Wilhelmenia Schumacher, was 33. She married August Ernst Kuester about 1913, in Grand Rapids, Itasca, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Milaca, Mille Lacs, Minnesota, United States in 1940 and Janesville Township, Waseca, Minnesota, United States in 1950. She died on 6 December 1957, in Janesville, Waseca, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Janesville, Waseca, Minnesota, United States.
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- Adeline W Kuester, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Adeline Becker - Individual or family possessions: birth: 11 January 1887; Grafton, Walsh, North Dakota, United States
- Adeline Wilhelmina Kuester, "Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001"
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1890
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
German and Dutch: occupational name for a baker of bread, or brick and tiles, derived from Middle High German and Middle Dutch backen ‘to bake’. The German surname is also found in France (mainly Lorraine and Alsace).
Danish: occupational name for a baker, from bechere ‘baker’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a baker, from German Bäcker (compare 1 and Backer ) or Yiddish beker ‘baker’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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