Brief Life History of John Carl
When John Carl Engwall was born on 12 November 1898, in Gennessee Township, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States, his father, Erick Engwall, was 48 and his mother, Julia Erickson, was 40. He married Esther Myrtle Bartlett on 21 May 1914. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Ramsey, Minnesota, United States in 1920. He died on 3 August 1971, in Atwater, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Atwater, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States.
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- John Ingbald in household of Erick Ingbald, "Minnesota State Census, 1895"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Carl Engwall - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: John Carl Engwall
- John Carl Engwall, "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1906 · The End of Capital Punishment
Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
Swedish: ornamental name composed of the elements eng, a variant of äng ‘meadow’ (possibly from a placename), + wall, a variant of vall ‘field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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