Gertrude Thelen

Brief Life History of Gertrude

When Gertrude Thelen was born in 1870, in Indiana, United States, her father, Albert Peter Thelen, was 28 and her mother, Charlotte Elizabeth Hubbard, was 26. She lived in Attica, Logan Township, Fountain, Indiana, United States in 1870.

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Family Time Line

Albert Peter Thelen
1842–1911
Charlotte Elizabeth Hubbard
1844–1917
Albert Hubbard Thelen
1867–1942
Gertrude Thelen
1870–
Addie Grace Thelen
1872–1952
John Marshall Thelen
1874–1943
Mable Thelen
1880–
Charles Clement Thelen
1881–1954
Charlotte Elizabeth Thelen
1883–1935
Bessie Thelen
1884–1962
Herbert Walbridge Thelen
1891–1970

Sources (1)

  • Gertrude Thelen in household of Peter Thelen, "United States Census, 1870"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

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.

Name Meaning

Dutch and North German: patronymic from a pet form of the ancient Germanic personal name Thietilo. Thelen is a variant of Thielen .

Swedish (Thelén): ornamental or habitational name from the element Thel- of uncertain meaning (see Thelander ) + the adjectival suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius ‘relating to’. Compare Thelin .

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

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