George Lipka

Brief Life History of George

George Lipka was born on 4 February 1888, in Slovakia. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Mary Furdek. He lived in Lorain, Lorain, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 27 February 1950, in Amherst, Lorain, Ohio, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Lorain, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Lipka
1888–1950
Mary Furdek
1893–1972
Mary Helen Lipka
1912–2003
Joseph Paul Lipka
1914–1992
George S Lipka
1915–1957

Sources (6)

  • George Lipka, "United States Census, 1930"
  • George Lipka, "Find a Grave Index"
  • George C Lipka in entry for Robert Nathaniel Poyer and Mary Helen Lipka, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

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1890 · Woman's Suffrage

An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Elke, Helmut, Kurt, Otto. Polish Andrzej, Henryka, Jerzy, Kazimierz, Ryszard, Stanislaw, Zygmund.

Polish, Sorbian, and Ukrainian: topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, from a diminutive of lipa ‘lime tree’ (see Lipa ).

Polish and Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): habitational name from villages called Lipka or Lipki in Poland and Ukraine.

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

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