Brief Life History of Holland
When Holland Wheeler III was born on 25 December 1902, in Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United States, his father, Holland Wheeler, was 65 and his mother, Martha Elizabeth Glasby, was 43. He married Josephine Claire Manter on 27 August 1922, in Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United States. He lived in Douglas, Kansas, United States in 1905 and Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 26 February 1994, in Overland Park, Johnson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United States.
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- Holland Wheeler, "Kansas State Census, 1905"
- Holland Wheeler, "Missouri, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Holland Wheeler, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1905
Historical Boundaries: 1905: Johnson, Kansas, United States
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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