Robert Ellis James

Male1944–1944

Brief Life History of Robert Ellis

When Robert Ellis James was born in 1944, his father, Orville G James, was 32 and his mother, Rose Emma Goodwin, was 23. He died in 1944, at the age of 0, and was buried in Toledo Memorial Park, Sylvania, Lucas, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Orville G James
1912–1987
Rose Emma Goodwin
1921–1992
Robert Ellis James
1944–1944
Rosalie A. James
1946–2023
Patricia L James
1949–2007

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  • Robert Ellis James, "Find A Grave Index"

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1944 · The G.I Bill

Age 0

The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

Name Meaning

English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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