Brief Life History of Donald Ferris
When Donald Ferris Freytag was born on 1 December 1936, in Escanaba, Delta, Michigan, United States, his father, Herman William FREYTAG Sr, was 39 and his mother, Esther Mae COX, was 33. He married Edwina Ray Douglass on 29 June 1957, in Columbia, Oregon, United States. He lived in Milton Election Precinct, Columbia, Oregon, United States in 1950 and St. Helens, Columbia, Oregon, United States for about 1 years. He died on 23 January 2003, in Adrian, Malheur, Oregon, United States, at the age of 66.
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- Donald F Freytag, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Donald Ferris Freytag - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Donald Ferris Freytag
- Donald Ferris Freytag, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Marriage Records, 1906-1968"
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1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
1940
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
1954 · Worlds Largest Christmas Store
Wally Bronner opened what would become the world's largest Christmas Store in 1954 as a result of successfully creating custom Christmas panels for city lampposts. Since then, the Frankenmuth store has expanded to a 27 acre landscaped lot with over 50,000 Christmas related items in his store. Bronner's attracts over two million guests per year.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Friedhelm, Kurt, Baerbel, Bernd, Dietrich, Erwin, Hans, Otto, Rainer.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Freitag .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Bert Freytag Stories: Freytag Stories of Moss Lake, Moberg, Willapa Bay WA
Times were very hard for the Freytag family. It was very common that immigrants and city people would be tricked into buying extremely bad farmland (see documentaries on fraudulent selling of Alaska …
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