Brief Life History of John J.
When John J. Horner was born on 15 February 1914, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, his father, Harry Rohrer Horner, was 32 and his mother, Mary Bissell Thomas, was 26. He married Fern Esther Starkey on 3 September 1938, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States. He lived in Sedgwick, Kansas, United States in 1920. He died on 8 May 2003, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States.
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- John J Horner in household of Harry R Horner, "United States Census, 1930"
- John Joseph Horner, "Kansas, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- John Joseph Horner, "Find A Grave Index"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
1927 · Kansas Adopts a Flag
The flag of the State of Kansas was adopted on September 24, 1927. The flag was designed by Hazel Avery in 1925.
1938 · Electrification of Rural Kansas
Power was supplied to rural Kansas, which had been hit hard by the depression, in March 1938. Many farmers could not afford the $5 hookups for electricity. As a result, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act which provided loans to farmers who wanted electricity. Brown County became the first to receive service.
Name Meaning
English (North Yorkshire) and German: from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; used either as an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn (Middle English hornere), a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land. In the Middle Ages whole horns were used for many purposes: as drinking vessels, as containers, as wind instruments for sounding an alarm and for signalling to others (e.g. when hunting). Pieces of horn were used to make spoons, buttons, combs, handles, decorative tips for rods, and other things. The horner's craft could include making musical horns as well as sheets of translucent horn for windows and for covering books. For example, Thomas Hornar of Petergate in York was paid for ‘hornyng et naillyng’ the superscribed covers of books in York Minster library in 1421.
German (also Hörner): from any of various places called Horn, referring to their location at a spur of land, at a horn shaped piece of land.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn 5.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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