When Wilhelmine Barbara "Minnie" Theimann was born on 24 January 1900, in Friedensau Township, Thayer, Nebraska, United States, her father, Frederick William Thiemann, was 51 and her mother, Maria Magdalena Wulfekötter, was 45. She married Alvin Hitzeman on 20 January 1920, in Friedensau Township, Thayer, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Ceres, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1935 and Ceres Judicial Township, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1940. She died on 28 June 1977, in Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Lakewood Memorial Park, Hughson, Stanislaus, California, 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.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Heinz, Dieter, Eberhardt, Elke, Helmut, Otto, Uwe.
North German: from a short form of a variant of the personal name Diedrich + man ‘man’.
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a village meeting place, from Middle Low German tī, tig.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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