Brief Life History of Peter Adrian "Pete"
When Peter Adrian "Pete" Thompson was born on 22 August 1904, in Hanover, Washington, Kansas, United States, his father, James Allen Thompson, was 38 and his mother, Emma Frances Bean, was 26. He married Mae Irene Saari on 31 January 1927, in Shelby, Toole, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Long Beach Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1950. He died on 14 November 1952, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
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- Pete A Thompson, "United States Census, 1940"
- Peter Adron Thompson, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Peter Adrian Thompson, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
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World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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