Brief Life History of Thomas Gordan
When Thomas Gordan Chapman was born on 24 August 1924, in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States, his father, Guy Rexford Chapman, was 30 and his mother, Virginia Helen Diedrick, was 19. He married Mabel Virginia Hurst on 20 July 1946, in Hertford, Perquimans, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 27 February 1955, in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Brookdale Cemetery, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States.
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- Thomas Chapman in household of Peter Diedrick, "United States Census, 1930"
- Thomas Chapman, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Thomas Gordon Chapman, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a merchant or trader, Middle English chap(pe)man, chepman, Old English cēapmann, cēpemann, a compound of cēap ‘barter, bargain, price, property’ + mann ‘man’.
Jewish: adopted probably for a like-sounding or like-meaning name in some other European language; see for example Kaufman .
History: This name was brought independently to North America from England by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. John Chapmen (sic) was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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