When John Hensel Pitzer was born on 26 September 1897, in Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States, his father, Charles Clifford Pitzer, was 29 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Hensel, was 27. He married Rula Cardon on 1 August 1931, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States. He lived in Justice Precinct 1, Galveston, Texas, United States in 1940 and Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States in 1950. He died on 24 December 1981, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Fort Huachuca, Cochise, Arizona, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The first building on the Utah State University Campus was named Old Main and is the oldest functioning academic building in Utah. It was built after the current site was approved unanimously by the Board of Trustees for the new college. Construction started in 1889 and the entire building was completed in 1902. During the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1919, the building was used as a makeshift hospital to take care the effected residents in the surrounding area. Old Main was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
German: variant of Pitz 2.
Altered form of Pfitzer .
Jewish (from Austrian Galicia): occupational, an agent derivative of the German verb putzen ‘to clean, polish’, ‘to decorate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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