When Ruth Eleanor Kerns was born on 11 June 1915, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Henry Michael Kerns, was 31 and her mother, Grace Eleanor Harrington, was 27. She lived in Grand Island, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States in 1943. She died on 15 September 1976, in United States, at the age of 61.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Original construction of the Camp Dodge began in 1907 and was originally planned to provide a place for the National Guard units to train. In 1917, it was handed over to national authorities and expanded to become the regional training center for World War I forces. The Camp was named after Brigadier General Grenville M. Dodge, who organized Iowa's first National Guard unit. When the war ended, the camp was downsized and turned back over to the state until the start of World War II. Today, Camp Dodge has served only as a Guard and Reserve installation.
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
Irish: variant of Kearns .
German and Dutch: variant of Kern .
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