Robert Mason Pitzer

Brief Life History of Robert Mason

When Robert Mason Pitzer was born on 7 March 1914, in Mannington, Marion, West Virginia, United States, his father, Howard Vance Pitzer, was 26 and his mother, Maud Blanche Mason, was 22. He married Charlotte Stevenson on 25 April 1936, in Ingram, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. He lived in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930 and Berea, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1950. He died on 5 October 1970, in West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Malad City Cemetery, Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States.

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Robert Mason Pitzer
1914–1970
Reva Hughes
1914–1976
Marriage: 29 September 1945

Sources (22)

  • Robert Pitzer, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Robert Pitzer, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
  • Robert Mason Pitzer, "Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"

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World Events (8)

1915 · Dinosaur National Monument

Dinosaur National Monument is a park that contains over 800 paleontological sites and fossils. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.

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.

1929

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.

Name Meaning

German: variant of Pitz 2.

Altered form of Pfitzer .

Jewish (from Austrian Galicia): occupational, an agent derivative of the German verb putzen ‘to clean, polish’, ‘to decorate’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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