Brief Life History of Robert J
When Robert J Gass was born in 1914, in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York, United States, his father, Robert Gass, was 35 and his mother, Mary, was 34.
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Family Time Line
Robert Gass
1879–1923
Mary
1880–
Robert J Gass
1914–
Zoe Gass
1917–
Sources (5)
- Robert J Gass, "United States Census, 1940"
- Robert J Gass in household of Mary E Gass, "United States Census, 1930"
- Robert J Gass in household of Robert Gass, "United States Census, 1920"
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World Events (8)
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 2
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.
1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
Age 3
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
Age 31
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
South German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in a street in a city, town, or village, Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, Yiddish gas ‘street, side street’.
Altered form of German Gast .
Scottish (southwestern): habitational name from Gasse (Kirkcudbrights).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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