When Essie Muriel Doren was born on 21 March 1919, in Oklahoma, United States, her father, Thomas E Doren, was 30 and her mother, Frances B Doren Troyer, was 21. She married Rex Stephen Bryan from 1935 to 1940. She lived in Pryor, Mayes, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and San Diego Township, San Diego, California, United States in 1940. She died on 25 October 1969, in El Cajon, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 50.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
By 1921, Tulsa was a booming city with a population of over one hundred thousand, with ten thousand African Americans in the Greenwood District. Crime rates in Tulsa soared and vigilantism was present. An incident occurred with Dick Rowland, an African American shoe shiner, and Sara Page, a white elevator operator. Reports claim Rowland stepped on Page’s foot and she let out a scream. The newspaper reported Rowland attempted to rape Page. Rowland was arrested and white vigilantes demanded the sheriff to hand over Rowland for lynching. An armed group of African American men went to the courthouse to aid in protecting Rowland from the mob. The group was turned away and a shot was fired between the white and African American groups, which ignited a riot. While buildings in Tulsa were burned, a major effort by whites focused mainly on the Greenwood District which was burned to the ground and many were shot. Over 30 people were killed and many were injured in the riots.
The city of Chicago was presented with another chance to host a World's Fair. It was offered to the city to commemorate the 100 years of its existence. Many people didn't like the idea of them having another Worlds Fair because the nation, as a whole, was coming out of the Great Depression.
German (Dören): habitational name from any of the places called Döhren, in Hanover and Westphalia. In North America, this surname may also be a shortened form of various German surnames beginning with Doren-, for example Dorenberg, Dorendorff.
Dutch: reflex of Doorn with epenthesis.
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