Community social notes from Ottawa area and Topeka visit
Local residents hosted and attended numerous gatherings. Families including Carpenter Wittman and Lane hosted meals and visits in Ottawa and Topeka. Notables mention E. F. Tad Wieman, athletics director at the University of Denver, as former head coach at several top universities.
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John Carpenter
Lyla
Elaine Wittman
Joyce Stoffer
Winter Hospital
Topeka
Lyla Carpenter
Leonard Carpenter
R. W. Horne
Byron Yates
Raton
N M
Stella Lane
T. R. Sedgwick
Horne
Yates
Sedgwick
Lane
E. EF
Tad) Wieman
University of Denver
Michigan
Minnesota
Princeton
Columbia
The New Yorker Compiles Book On Family Names Origin
New Yorker editor Elsdon C. Smith spent 20 years researching and published The Dictionary of American Family Names listing 10 000 examples from Aagaard to Zylstra explaining origins such as Nixon son of Nick Stevenson crown or garland and Eisenhower iron miner The piece notes names carry history and often humorous meanings with examples like Coolidge bald and Waterhouse near a pool and provides a playful look at how surnames reflect lineage and geography
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorker
New York
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Nick
Nicholar
Adlai Stevenson
Stephen
Dwight Fisenhower
Estes Kefauver
Dwight
Diot
Dionysus
Eisenhower
Torney
Aagaard
Zylstra
Smith
Jones
John
Calvin
Coolidge
Warren
Harding
Woodrow
Labor Day Holiday Returns See High Traffic Toll
Chicago reports a three day weekend draw millions to roads for beaches camps and back to school. The National Safety Council estimates 480 deaths by Labor Day end and warns some victims will die later from injuries. An AP nationwide compare shows 366 deaths over a similar nonholiday weekend.
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Chicago
National
Satcts Council
Associated Press
Safety Council
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Pomona
Robert Lopers
Ottawa
Jim Plough
Benson
Ariz
C. E. Rodgers
Wilda Rodgers
John Dickey
Charlotte
Shorty
Dick Gilliland
West A Street
Hoover
West B Street
Gene Miller
Michael
Gary
Ross Johnson
Barbara
James
Harry Miller
Sharon
Norman Miller
Steve
Connie
Bob
Marvin
Sherrill
Fred Lauk
Kansas City
Roy English
G. L. Lauk
English
N. F. Lauk
Scott Lee
Michigan Valley Church
William
Button
Marion Smith
Alan
Robert Lopez
Dickie
Brenda
Robbie
Jeff
Forest Park
Archie Clark
Leslie
Mae Hunter
A. W. Lyon
Edgerton
Fannie Kraus
Dewey Hopper
Clinton
Tenn
Clinton High School
Hopper
Mike Mulcahey
Buick Co
Tvera Ay
Oliver
Oliver Farm Machinery
Wilson
Roosevelt
F.D.R
Franklin
Mulvaney
Monroe
Red
Muscarello
Rover
Frances
Boyle
Baoigheall
Young
Sowers
John G. Kaiser
Masonic Blog
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