Marion C Hammer

Female1916–1978

Brief Life History of Marion C

When Marion C Hammer was born in 1916, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, Harold Joseph Hammer, was 25 and her mother, Katherine T. Mullins, was 22. She lived in Beaver Dam, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1978, at the age of 62.

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Family Time Line

Harold Joseph Hammer
1891–1960
Katherine T. Mullins
1894–1987
Marion C Hammer
1916–1978
Norma Hammer
1919–1989
Richard Hammer
1926–1963

Sources (2)

  • Marion Hammer in household of Harold Hammer, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Marion C Hammer in household of Harold J Hammer, "United States Census, 1930"

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Siblings (3)

World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Age 0

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1919 · Minimum Wage Laws Passed

Age 3

The first minimum wage law took effect in 1919 and specified women and children under 17 years of age should be paid 22 cents per hour.

1934 · Kohler Strike

Age 18

Employees at Kohler Company in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, attempted to organize a union, but the company would not work with them. The employees organized a strike on July 27, 1934. Events escalated and two people were killed and 47 were injured.

Name Meaning

German, English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German hamer, Yiddish hamer, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hammers, for example in a forge, or a nickname for a forceful person. As an English surname, the derivation from Middle English ham(m)er, hamor ‘hammer’ (Old English hamor) is formally possible, either as a metonymic occupational name or as a locative or occupational name taken from a shop sign or inn sign. However, there is no evidence that such appellations became hereditary surnames. The surname of German origin (possibly also in the sense 2 below) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).

English and German: topographic name for someone who lived in an area of water meadow, or flat, low-lying alluvial land beside a stream, Middle English ham(me), Old English hamm, Old High German ham (see Hamm ) + the English and German agent suffix -er. In England, names composed of a topographic term + -er are characteristic of southern England, especially Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire.

English: possibly a variant of Hanmer , and in northern England a variant of Hamer .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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