When Lloyd Thomas Farmer was born on 10 August 1913, in Hooper, Whitman, Washington, United States, his father, Thomas Daniel Farmer, was 22 and his mother, Esther Inez Franklin, was 21. He married Vera Gladyce Kent on 14 June 1935, in Spokane, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Mead, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1930 and Douglas, Douglas, Washington, United States in 1950. He died on 23 July 1979, in Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield, Douglas, Washington, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
The Boeing Aircraft was named and created by William Boeing. The first two planes were Bluebill and Mallard and the first flight was July 15, 1916. Boeing aircrafts made their debut during WWI.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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