Brief Life History of Frank Edwin
When Frank Edwin Rensimer was born on 29 November 1915, in Los Angeles, California, United States, his father, Chester Frank Rensimer, was 32 and his mother, Helen Maude Shadley, was 29. He lived in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years and Whittier Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 25 October 1980, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Frank Rensimer, "United States Census, 1940"
- Frank E Rensimer, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"
- Frank E Rensimer, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
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.
Name Meaning
Of Germanic origin. The name referred originally to a member of the tribe of the Franks, who are said to have got the name from a characteristic type of spear that they used. When the Franks migrated into Gaul in the 4th century, the country received its modern name of France (Late Latin Francia) and the tribal term Frank came to mean ‘Frenchman’. The name is now also used as a short form of Francis or Franklin .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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