Brief Life History of Dorothea Oliva
When Dorothea Oliva Todd was born on 4 August 1915, in Wyoming, United States, her father, William Robert Todd, was 29 and her mother, Estella Amelia Elizabeth Feyhl, was 27. She married Francis Buckle on 10 June 1931, in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Election District 2, Washakie, Wyoming, United States in 1930 and Election District 5, Washakie, Wyoming, United States in 1940. She died on 11 July 2013, in Worland, Washakie, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Worland, Washakie, Wyoming, United States.
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- Dorothy D Buckle in household of Frank Buckle, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Dorothea Oliva Todd - birth-name: Dorothea Oliva Todd
- Dorothy Olibie Todd, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
1920
Women got to vote first time in the state of Wyoming.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (mainly northern) and Scottish: nickname for someone thought to resemble a fox, for example in cunning or slyness, or perhaps more obviously in having red hair, from northern Middle English tod(de) ‘fox’. Compare Todhunter , Todman . This name was brought to Ulster, Ireland, from Scotland in the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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