When Aloyse Bernadine Wehrli was born on 13 December 1913, in Mayville, Gilliam, Oregon, United States, her father, Robert Peter Wehrli, was 26 and her mother, Lola Aileen Tubbs, was 19. She married Herbert Howard Mason on 3 October 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. She lived in Danville, Contra Costa, California, United States in 1935 and Judicial Township 3, Placer, California, United States in 1940. She died on 9 August 1964, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 50.
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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.
Thousands of soldiers were assigned to the U.S. Army Spruce Production Division to provide wood for airplanes and ships during World War I. Poor working conditions in 1917 caused the men to strike which slowed the logging production in the area. The demands of the strikers were rejected by the lumber companies. As the need was ever-present for lumber during the war, the government stationed soldiers to do the work. Over 230 spruce soldier camps were built and occupied throughout the Pacific Northwest at this time.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Ernst, Mathias.
Swiss German: variant of Wehrle .
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