When Henry Millidge Ratliff was born on 29 April 1907, in Mangum, Greer, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Milledge Moses Ratliff, was 32 and his mother, Lury Jane Wilson, was 33. He married Mary Louise Dieter on 4 January 1928, in Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Bloomington, Greer, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. He died on 24 May 1944, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Historical Boundaries: 1910: Greer, Texas, United States
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.
English (Suffolk): habitational name from one or more of the places so named, such as Radcliffe (Lancashire), Radcliffe on Trent and Ratcliffe on Soar (both Nottinghamshire), Radclive (Buckinghamshire), Ratcliffe Culey and Ratcliffe on the Wreake (both Leicestershire), Ratclyffe in Clyst Hydon, Ratcliffes in Thorverton, and Ratcliffes in Broad Clyst (all Devon), Ratcliff in Stepney (Middlesex), and Rackley in Compton Bishop (Somerset). The placenames derive from Old English rēad ‘red’ + clif ‘cliff, bank, steep slope’ (see also Rutley ). A family of the name Radcliffe trace their descent from Sir Nicholas de Radclyffe. He is said to have been a knight who held the major of Radcliffe in Lancashire and served Roger de Poitou, Baron de Marsey in the 11th century.
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