When Juanita Grace Messinger was born on 14 December 1916, in Idaho, United States, her father, Melvin Howard Messinger, was 37 and her mother, Grace Ariscia Byington, was 25. She died on 23 September 1921, in her hometown, at the age of 4, and was buried in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States.
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U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English: variant of Messenger .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a brazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German messinc ‘brass’, German Messing, from Greek mossynoikos (chalkos) ‘Mossynoecan bronze’, named after the people of northeastern Asia Minor who first produced the alloy.
German: habitational name for someone from Mössingen in Baden-Württemberg (Messingen in the local dialect), which is recorded as Masginga in 789, probably from the personal name Masco + ingen, suffix of relationship.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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