When Wilford Kalk was born on 12 June 1910, in Elgin, Kane, Illinois, United States, his father, Paul Harry Kalk, was 29 and his mother, Elsie Edna Walker, was 30. He died on 14 June 1910, in Elgin, Kane, Illinois, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Bluff City Cemetery, Cook, Illinois, United States.
German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a lime burner, from Middle High German kalc ‘lime’ (a loanword from Latin calx), Middle Dutch calk. Lime is a white calcium oxide obtained by heating limestone (see Kalkbrenner ).
German (of Slavic origin): unexplained.
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