Brief Life History of Merlin Duane
When Merlin Duane Patterson was born on 23 September 1919, in Devils Lake, Ramsey, North Dakota, United States, his father, Clifford Earl Patterson, was 20 and his mother, Lillian Birdella Thompson, was 22. He married Marilyn Eliazbeth Jones on 8 December 1946, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 20 August 1994, in Ritzville, Adams, Washington, United States, at the age of 74.
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- Merlin Patterson in household of Clifford Patterson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Merlin D Patterson, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
- Merlin D Patterson, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
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1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1920
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
1940
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: variant of Patrickson ‘son of Patrick ’, which was either shortened to Patrison and metathesized to Patterson, or shortened from Paterickson to Patterson.
Irish: in Ulster, this name is of English or Scottish origin, but in County Galway, it was also taken by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casín ‘curly’), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane. In addition to the confusion between Irish Gaelic casín ‘curly’ and cosán ‘path’, there has also been an erroneous assumption that the English name Patterson is somehow derived from the English word path.
English: 19th-century variant of Patteson, a shortened form of Pattinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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