Brief Life History of Walter Moritz
When Walter Moritz Elsasser was born on 20 March 1904, in Kreis Mannheim, Baden, his father, Moritz Elsasser, was 31 and his mother, Johanna Pauline Masius, was 23. He married Margaret A Trahey on 15 July 1937, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Pasadena Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Haverford, Haverford Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He died on 14 October 1991, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 87.
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- Walter Elsassu, "United States Census, 1940"
- Dr, Dr Walter M Elsasser, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Walter Hellmuth Moritz Elsasser, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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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.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Arno, Alois, Caspar, Fritz, Volker.
German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic) (mainly Elsässer): habitational name for someone from Alsace (German Elsass, Yiddish Elzes), with the suffix -er indicating a native or inhabitant of a place. The name of the region (first attested in Latin documents in the form Alisatia) has traditionally been derived from Old High German ali ‘other, foreign’ + saz ‘seat, possession’, but Bahlow traces the first element back to a river name Ill or Ell. Compare Elsaesser and Elsesser .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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