When Vera Christina Linton was born on 11 January 1915, in Lodi, San Joaquin, California, United States, her father, David Gordon Linton, was 34 and her mother, Vera Othilia Klugow, was 23. She married Eugene Wendell Clark on 1 October 1938, in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States for about 5 years and Millbrae, San Mateo, California, United States in 1950. She died on 6 February 1998, in Reading, Shasta, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Redding, Shasta, California, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Thousands of soldiers were assigned to the U.S. Army Spruce Production Division to provide wood for airplanes and ships during World War I. Poor working conditions in 1917 caused the men to strike which slowed the logging production in the area. The demands of the strikers were rejected by the lumber companies. As the need was ever-present for lumber during the war, the government stationed soldiers to do the work. Over 230 spruce soldier camps were built and occupied throughout the Pacific Northwest at this time.
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Scottish, northern Irish, and English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called, found in the Scottish Borders and in various parts of England. The second element is in all cases Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In the case of Linton in Northumberland the first element is a British river name, Lyne (related to Welsh lliant ‘stream’), while Linton in Kent is ‘estate associated with a man called Lill or Lilla’. The other places of this name normally have as their first element Old English lind ‘lime tree’ or līn ‘flax’, but occasionally perhaps hlynn ‘torrent’ or hlinc ‘hillside’. (On the basis of geographical situation the meaning ‘torrent’ would be appropriate to Linton near Skipton in West Yorkshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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