Brief Life History of Woodrow Martin
When Woodrow Martin Wilson was born on 12 October 1917, in Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States, his father, Axel Martin Jonsson Wilson, was 40 and his mother, Berthine Agathe Helgesdatter, was 37. He married Helen Mary Nevin on 21 July 1940, in Rich, Utah, United States. He lived in Lincoln, Wyoming, United States for about 10 years and Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States in 1940. He died on 6 February 2006, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 88.
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- Woodrow M. Wilson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Woodrow Martin Wilson - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Woodrow Martin Wilson
- Mr. Woodrow Wilson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"
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World Events (8)
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.
1920
Women got to vote first time in the state of Wyoming.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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