Brief Life History of Emily Louise
When Emily Louise Blass was born on 1 April 1877, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Nicholas Blass, was 24 and her mother, Sophie Julia Thren, was 23. She married John Edward Halmer on 21 November 1901, in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. She died on 25 January 1942, in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Emma L Blass in household of Nicklas Blass, "United States Census, 1900"
- Emilie L. Blass, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Emily Louise Blass Halmer, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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.
Name Meaning
German: nickname for a bald-headed man or alternatively for a weak person, from Middle High German blas ‘bare, pale, weak, insignificant’.
North German: from the personal name Blass, from Latin Blasius .
Germanized or Americanized form of Sorbian Blaz (see Blas ), Polish Błaż, Slovenian and Croatian Blaž (see Blaz ), cognates of 2 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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