Brief Life History of Henry Oscar
When Henry Oscar Jorde was born on 26 August 1917, in Milroy, McHenry, North Dakota, United States, his father, Amund Halvorsen Jorde, was 30 and his mother, Mina Petrina Hougum, was 28. He married Bregetta Catherine Hager on 3 June 1946, in Towner, McHenry, North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Township 157 Range 76, McHenry, North Dakota, United States in 1940 and McHenry, North Dakota, United States in 1950. He died on 7 January 2011, in Towner, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Saint Cecilias Catholic Cemetery, Towner, McHenry, North Dakota, United States.
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- Henry Jorde, "United States 1950 Census"
- Henry Oscar Jorde, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Henry Jorde in entry for Sister M Anella Hager, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Klaus, Ulrich. Scandinavian Bjorn.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from Old Norse gerthi ‘enclosed land, field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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