Brief Life History of Bertam Lawrence
When Bertam Lawrence Peabody was born on 8 May 1942, in New York City, New York, United States, his father, Bertram Legrande Peabody, was 28 and his mother, Virginia Maria Mckeon, was 25. He married Glenda Nell Rice on 22 September 1970, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. He lived in Patchogue, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States in 1990 and Lakewood, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1991. He died on 24 December 2003, in Sun City, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 61.
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- Bertram Peabrdy, Jr, "United States Census, 1950"
- Legacy NFS Source: Bertam Lawrence Peabody - Government record: Social Security record: birth-name: Bertrem Lawrence Peabody
- Bertram L Peabody Jr, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
1949
"Lakewood is a post-World War II planned community. Developers Louis Boyar, Mark Taper and Ben Weingart are credited with ""altering forever the map of Southern California."" Begun in late 1949, the completion of the developers' plan in 1953 helped in the transformation of mass-produced housing from its early phases in the 1930s and 1940s to the reality of the postwar 1950s... Lakewood in 1953 had three choices: be annexed to nearby Long Beach, remain unincorporated and continue to receive county services, or incorporate as a city under a novel plan that continued county services under contract. In 1954, residents chose the latter option and voted to incorporate as a city, the largest community in the country ever to do so and the first city in Los Angeles County to incorporate since 1939."
1960
Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English: nickname ‘peacock-body’, from Middle English pe, pey, pay (Old English pēa) ‘peacock’ + body, perhaps for a vain person who dressed ostentatiously. Compare Pea , Peacock .
History: The prominent financier and philanthropist George Peabody was born 1795 in South Danvers, now Peabody, MA. His first ancestor in America was Francis Peabody, who emigrated from England in 1635 and settled at Topsfield, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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