When Louis Everett Tuttle was born on 9 April 1923, in Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Louis Jude Tuttle, was 37 and his mother, Grace Parkes, was 35. He died on 28 December 2001, in Murrells Inlet, Georgetown, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Northwest Cemetery, Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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During WWI there was a dog from Connecticut that made a name for himself, his name was sergeant stubby. He was considered the official mascot of the 102nd infantry. He saved his regiment from suprise mustard attacks, comforted those that had been wounded, and even caught a German soldier and held him there until troops found him. He had his own uniform and everything.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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.
English (Norfolk, Suffolk and Berkshire):
possibly a variant of Thirkell, from the Middle English personal name T(h)irkill, T(h)urkill (Old Norse Thorkell, Thorkil, Thurkil, a shortened form of Thorketill from the god's name Thórr ‘Thor’ + ketill ‘kettle, cauldron’).
variant of Tuthill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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