Brief Life History of James Henry
When James Henry Dean was born on 27 February 1934, in Shenandoah, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Anthony Eugene Dean, was 28 and his mother, Margaret Merle Linker, was 22. He married Eleanor Joy Gartner on 27 August 1955, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 10 October 1996, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Bala, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- James Dean in household of Anthony Dean, "United States Census, 1940"
- James H. Dean, "Find A Grave Index"
- James H Dean, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
1935 · The Social Security Act
This Act was created a basic right to a pension in old age, and insurance against unemployment.
1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment
Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English dene ‘valley’ (Old English denu), or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of England named Dean or Dene from this word.
English: nickname or occupational name for the servant of a dean or nickname for someone thought to resemble a dean. A dean was an ecclesiastical official, the head of a chapter of canons or a church official with jurisdiction over a sub-division of an archdeaconry. Though no doubt some deans had illegitimate children, they were officially celibate, and in the main the surname is probably a nickname in origin, similar to Bishop , Prior , Priest , and Monk . The Middle English word deen, dien, dein, is a borrowing of Old French d(e)ien, doien from Latin decanus (originally a leader of ten men, from decem ‘ten’), and thus is a cognate of Deacon .
English: from the Middle English personal name Deyne (or Dene) a rhyming pet form of Reynald (see Reginald ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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