Brief Life History of Ruth Dorothy
When Ruth Dorothy Maurer was born on 6 June 1930, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, her father, Jacob Johann Maurer, was 39 and her mother, Pauline Krieger, was 31. She married Warren Taylor Cooper on 18 January 1947. She lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1935 and Armada, Armada Township, Macomb, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 17 February 1996, in Westland, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Livonia, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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- Ruth D Maurer, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ruth Dorothy Maurer Corbin, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ruth Dorothy Cooper in entry for Ruth Dorothy Cooper, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1943 · The Detroit Race Riots
The 1943 Detroit Race Riot started on the evening of June 20 and lasted through June 22. It occurred in a period of dramatic social tensions associated with the military buildup of World War II, as Detroit's automotive industry was converted to the war effort. What fueled the fire the most was the arrival of nearly 400,000 migrants, both African-American and White Southerners, and the competition for space and jobs. It was suppressed after 6,000 federal troops were ordered into the city to restore peace. A total of 34 people were killed, 25 of them African-Americans and most at the hands of white police or National Guardsmen; 433 were wounded, 75 percent of them African-American.
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a mason, especially a builder of walls of stone or brick, from an agent derivative of Middle High German mūre, German Mauer ‘wall’ (from Latin murus ‘wall’, especially a city wall). In the Middle Ages the majority of dwellings were built of wood (or lath and plaster), and this term would have specifically denoted someone employed in building defensive walls, castles, churches, and other public buildings. This form of the surname is also found in some other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Slovenia (see also 2 below). Compare Mourer and Mowrer .
In some cases also an Americanized or Germanized form of Slovenian Mavrer or Mavrar: occupational name of German origin (see 1 above), at least in some cases applied as a translation into German of the Slovenian surname Zidar .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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