Brief Life History of Henry Joseph
When Henry Joseph Wetzstein was born on 18 January 1900, in North Dakota, United States, his father, Mathias Wetzstein, was 27 and his mother, Mary Gerving, was 22. He lived in Longview Township, Foster, North Dakota, United States in 1925 and Larrabee Township, Foster, North Dakota, United States in 1930. He died on 11 June 1960, in Cass, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Carrington, Foster, North Dakota, United States.
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- Henry Wetzstein in household of Math Wetzstein, "United States Census, 1910"
- Henry Joseph Wetzstein, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Henry J. Wetzstein, "Find A Grave Index"
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1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1901 · Theodore Roosevelt becomes the Twenty-sixth President of the United States
After the Assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the Twenty-sixth President of the United States. During his first term he didn't have a Vice President but for his second term Charles W. Fairbanks filled the position.
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Benno, Hanns, Helmut, Jurgen, Math.
German:
metonymic occupational name for a knife grinder, from Middle High German wetzstein ‘whetstone’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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