Brief Life History of Petaia Legalo
When Petaia Legalo Salanoa was born on 14 November 1914, in Tula, Vaifanua, Eastern, American Samoa, his father, Leatapo Leki Salanoa II, was 31 and his mother, Fuatapu Maui'a, was 23. He had at least 1 daughter with Fa'auli P. Salanoa. He died on 20 February 1988, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Waipahu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.
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- Petaia Legalo Salanoa, "Hawaii Obituaries Index, ca. 1980-present"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1935 · The FBI is Established
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Yves, Aliette, Francois, Jean Luc, Michel, Mireille.
Breton (mainly Finistère and Côtes-d'Armor; mainly Le Gall): nickname for a French-speaking person in Brittany, from Breton Gall ‘Gaulish person, Frenchman’, with the French masculine definite article le. See also Gall 4.
German: variant of Legel ‘cooper’ and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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