Brief Life History of Richard Allen
When Richard Allen York was born on 4 September 1928, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, his father, Bernard Allison York, was 24 and his mother, Isabelle Maurine “Betty” Snyder, was 15. He married Joan Barbara Alt on 7 November 1951, in Clarkstown, Rockland, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Cannon Township, Kent, Michigan, United States in 1992. In 1943, his occupation is listed as american radio, stage, film and television actor. He died on 20 February 1992, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Plainfield Cemetery, Plainfield Township, Kent, Michigan, United States.
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- Richard York in household of Bernard York, "United States Census, 1940"
- Richard Allen York, "Illinois, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Richard A York, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1929 · St. Valentine's Day Massacre
On the morning of February 14, seven men were shot by four men using tommy guns. Two of the men were dressed as policemen, and the others wore suits, ties, overcoats, and hats. Witnesses saw the fake police leading the other men at gunpoint out of the garage after the shooting. The massacre was planned by Al Capone to eliminate the leader of the North Side Gang. the massacre was a result of the Prohibition and the murder of one of the police officer's son.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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