When Robert James Walters was born on 4 May 1897, in Fraser, Boone, Iowa, United States, his father, Robert Asher Walters, was 25 and his mother, Anna Lucinda Showers, was 17. He married Gladys Marie Grimm on 25 April 1923, in Boone, Boone, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Wahkonsa Township, Webster, Iowa, United States in 1940 and Fort Dodge, Webster, Iowa, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 11 January 1980, at the age of 82, and was buried in Fort Dodge, Webster, Iowa, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Fort Dodge is locally referred to as "Little Chicago" because architects modeled downtown buildings to resemble Chicago in the mid 1900s.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English: variant of Walter , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
German: patronymic from Walter .
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