Brief Life History of Ellis
When Ellis Shorb was born on 12 November 1917, in Canyon, Kootenai, Idaho, United States, his father, Cormac Joseph Shorb, was 44 and his mother, Lilian Talitha Moore, was 41. He married Marjorie Elizabeth Wilson on 23 December 1947, in New York City, New York, United States. He lived in Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 1 May 2003, in El Segundo, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 85.
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Sources (7)
- Ellis Shorb in household of Lillian T Shorb, "United States Census, 1930"
- Ellis Shorb, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
- Ellis Shorb, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
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.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of South German Schorb, itself a variant of Schorp: from Middle High German schorp(e) ‘scorpion, tortoise’, applied as a nickname or as a topographic or habitational name referring to a house name derived from the use of a picture of a scorpion or tortoise as a house sign.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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