Brief Life History of Otis Alfred
When Otis Alfred Boomgaarn was born in 1919, in Humboldt, Richardson, Nebraska, United States, his father, Fred Boomgaarn, was 38 and his mother, Grace Johnson, was 33. He married Ruth Audrey Clark on 9 December 1942. He lived in Franklin, Richardson, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Franklin Election Precinct, Richardson, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 9 November 1990, at the age of 71, and was buried in Humboldt, Richardson, Nebraska, United States.
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- Otis Boomga*n, "United States Census, 1930"
- Otis Alfred Boomgaarn, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Otis Alfred Boomgaarn, "Nebraska, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a patronymic derived from the genitive case of the medieval given name Ote or Ode (of Norman, and ultimately Germanic, origin; compare Odette ). In northern England the medieval given name survived into the 19th century. It came to be used as a given name in America in honour of the Revolutionary hero James Otis ( 1725–83 ); in modern times it has been bestowed in honour of the American soul singer Otis Redding ( 1941–67 ).
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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