When Lewis Henry Griffin was born on 21 June 1899, in Carver, Carver, Minnesota, United States, his father, Levi Lewis Griffin, was 36 and his mother, Bertha Dorthia Ortlip, was 19. He married Violet Wood on 12 May 1924, in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Compton, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1942 and Compton, Le Flore, Oklahoma, United States in 1942. He registered for military service in 1920. He died on 7 February 1970, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress, Orange, California, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Historical Boundaries - 1903; Clackamas, Oregon, United States
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.
Welsh: from the personal name Gruffin, Griffin, a pet form of Middle Welsh Gruffudd. In the Welsh border counties this name was introduced directly from Welsh, and in the eastern counties of England by Bretons from France who came over with the Norman conquest.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.
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