When Edward Lewis WALTER was born on 24 October 1915, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Charles Emerson WALTER, was 54 and his mother, Alma Augusta Andersson, was 39. He married Ann Steponovich on 17 April 1943, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 13 December 2002, in Lombard, DuPage, Illinois, United States, at the age of 87.
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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.
During the Chicago race riot, which was raised by racial conflicts throughout Chicago, thirty-eight people died (23 black and 15 white) and over five hundred were injured. It is considered the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer and was the worst race riot in Illinois.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
English (of Norman origin), German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, and Danish: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements wald ‘rule’ + heri, hari ‘army’. This personal name was introduced into England both in the reign of Edward the Confessor and by the Normans (in the forms Walt(i)er, Waut(i)er). After the Norman Conquest it soon became one of the most popular personal names in Britain. Compare Walther .
Germanized or Americanized form of Czech, Slovak, Croatian, and Slovenian Valter and Czech Valtr: from the personal name Valter, Valtr, of ancient Germanic origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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