Brief Life History of Harry Sherwood
When SGT Harry Sherwood Gates was born on 31 May 1921, in Denver, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States, his father, Alfred Fairbanks Gates, was 37 and his mother, Alice Marguerite Ewry, was 32. He died on 6 December 1943, in Pauwela, Maui, Hawaii, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.
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- Harry Gates in household of Alfred F Gates, "United States Census, 1940"
- Utah, Military Records, 1861-1970
- Sgt Harry Sherwood Gates, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights
Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Gate with plural or excrescent -s. The English surname Gate has three possible origins: (i) a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘gate’ (Old English geat, dative plural gatum), denoting someone who lived by a gate or set of gates (possibly sometimes an occupational name for a gate keeper; compre Yates); (ii) in northern England, the East Midlands, and East Anglia, a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘street, road, path’ (Old Norse gata) for someone who lived by a road (compare Street ); (iii) a nickname meaning ‘goat’, from northern Middle English gate, gait (Old English gāt, Old Norse geitr).
Americanized form of German Götz (see Goetz ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Barrière (see Barriere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Accident that Killed Harry
On 7 December 1943, during a joint U.S. Navy–U.S. Marine simulated close air support exercise near Pauwela, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, the pilot of a U.S. Navy SBD-5, BuNo 36045[52] of squadron VB-10, …
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