Brief Life History of Harriet Tressie
When Harriet Tressie Fisher was born on 11 August 1922, in Inkom, Bannock, Idaho, United States, her father, Russel Fisher, was 34 and her mother, Clara Althea Anderson, was 32. She married Virgil Dale Janousek on 31 March 1941, in Mountain Home, Elmore, Idaho, United States. She lived in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1950 and Glenns Ferry, Elmore, Idaho, United States in 2001. She died on 7 June 2001, in Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Glenn Rest Cemetery, Glenns Ferry, Elmore, Idaho, United States.
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- Tressie H Janousek, "United States 1950 Census"
- Tressie Spencer, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Tressie Fisher, "Idaho, Elmore County Records, 1889-1972"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights
Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .
English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.
Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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