When Dorothea Heisserman was born on 14 April 1919, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Walter George Heisserman, was 29 and her mother, Elsie Maria Porter, was 25. She married Donald Travis Renshaw in 1937, in New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Chapel Hill Township, Orange, North Carolina, United States in 1950 and Utah, United States in 1950. She died on 3 June 2008, in Newtown, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 89.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
In 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified making it so that women could vote. This achievement finally gave North Carolina the freedom to vote they had been fighting for since 1897.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Americanized form of German Heisermann: variant of Heiser 1, with the addition of -mann ‘man’.
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