Brief Life History of Dorothy Jean
When Dorothy Jean Campbell was born on 2 October 1917, in Carey, Blaine, Idaho, United States, her father, George William Campbell, was 36 and her mother, Rose Pearl Fuller, was 26. She married Henry Harrison Whitney on 27 November 1936, in Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in United Kingdom in 2006. She died on 13 March 2006, in Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho, United States.
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Sources (17)
- Jean Campbell in household of George Campbell, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Dorothy Jean Campbell - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Dorothy Jean Campbell
- Jean Campbell, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
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World Events (8)
1918
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
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.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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