When Walter Carl Christensen was born on 27 January 1898, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, his father, Casper Aug. Christensen, was 31 and his mother, Emma Louise Lang, was 22. He married Elsie Margaret Vaisey on 31 October 1923, in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Brighton, Monroe, New York, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1918. He died in November 1973, in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 75.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Niels, Lars, Bent, Anders, Thor, Jorgen, Nils, Einer, Viggo, Folmer.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Christen . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the especially Danish and Norwegian variant Kristensen . Compare Christenson and Christianson .
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