Brief Life History of Josephine Margaret
When Josephine Margaret Karmann was born on 19 March 1895, in Ontario, Canada, her father, Mathais Karmann, was 39 and her mother, Mary, was 36. She married Jesse Charles Bell on 29 December 1909, in Albert Rural Municipality, Manitoba, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Colton, Whitman, Washington, United States in 1920 and Lind, Adams, Washington, United States in 1930. She died on 15 September 1985, in Coupeville, Island, Washington, United States, at the age of 90.
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- Josephine M Bell in household of Jess C Bell, "United States Census, 1930"
- Josephine Karman in household of Mathew Karman, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Margaret Josephine Bell in household of Jesse Charles Bell, "United States Census, 1920"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
North German: occupational name for a carter, Middle Low German karman. Compare Karman .
South German: from Middle High German kar ‘container, bowl, grain measure’ + man ‘man’, hence an occupational name for a maker of such utensils.
South German (Tyrolean): topographic name for someone who lived in a kar, a bowl-shaped valley bottom.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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