When Joseph Clifford Kortum was born on 25 January 1928, in Long Beach, Pacific, Washington, United States, his father, Joseph Clifford Kortum, was 21 and his mother, Abbie Alvira Fuller, was 19. He married Marjorie Colleen Morris on 11 June 1950, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States for about 5 years and United States in 1949. He died on 28 July 1989, in Long Beach, Pacific, Washington, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Restlawn Memorial Gardens, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
German (also Kortüm): nickname for an agile, nimble, decisive person, from Middle Low German kortumme, literally ‘turn round quickly’, standard German kurzum ‘in short’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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