When Alvin Rode was born on 27 May 1913, in Roscoe, Rockland, Sullivan, New York, United States, his father, Edward Noland Rode Sr, was 46 and his mother, Cornelia Anna Eckert, was 44. He married Rhoda May Wood on 17 May 1932, in Delaware, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Nepawan, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Hancock, Hancock, Delaware, New York, United States in 1940. He died on 11 June 1969, in Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States.
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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.
The first minimum wage law took effect in 1919 and specified women and children under 17 years of age should be paid 22 cents per hour.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Erwin, Ewald, Hans, Heinz, Oskar, Viktor, Claus, Frieda, Fritz, Gerhard, Horst.
German and French: from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic personal names with the first element hrōd ‘renown’. Compare Robert , Rudiger .
North German, Danish, and English: topographic name for someone who lived on land cleared for cultivation or in a clearing in woodland, from Middle Low German rode, Danish rothe, Old English rod. There are a number of places in England named with this word, for example Rode in Cheshire, and the surname may derive from any of these. Compare Rhode .
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