When Kent Whitman was born on 23 December 1898, in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William Faunce Whitman, was 30 and his mother, Martha A. Barnard, was 22. He married Merita Frances Varnum in 1927, in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 30 years. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 7 January 1964, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 65.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
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.
English (southern): from the Middle English personal name Whytman (Old English Hwītmann, from hwīt ‘white’ + mann ‘man’). Compare White 1 and also Wightman , with which this surname was probably confused.
History: John Whitman settled in Weymouth, MA, c. 1638. The poet Walt Whitman (1819–92) was descended from Joseph Whitman, who had settled in Stratford, CT, from England around 1660.
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