Brief Life History of Thelma Leona
When Thelma Leona Biver was born on 22 October 1915, in Ammon, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, her father, Sylvester August Biver, was 30 and her mother, Hulda Mae Carter, was 28. She married Darell Lloyd Casey on 17 April 1935, in Los Angeles, California, United States. She lived in California, United States in 1935 and Chillicothe, Peoria, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 25 August 1975, at the age of 59.
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- Thelma Biver in household of Arthur D Johnson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Thelma Leona Biver, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Thelma L Casey, "Illinois, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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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.
1925 · Woman's World's Fair
The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
Irish (County Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duibhidhir or sometimes of Mac Duibhidhir (see Dwyer , also Dyer , Dever and Devere ).
English: from Middle English diver, attested only in the sense ‘rope dancer’ but probably also an occupational name for one who dives under water (for example, to mend boats, weirs or fishing nets or to collect oysters or other shellfish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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