Kenneth Euguene Wise

Brief Life History of Kenneth Euguene

When Kenneth Euguene Wise was born on 29 July 1930, in Gettysburg, Potter, South Dakota, United States, his father, Kenneth Burr Wise, was 44 and his mother, Anna Helena Bruns, was 38. He married Clara Maass on 15 March 1953, in Cavour, Beadle, South Dakota, United States. He lived in Collins Township, Clark, South Dakota, United States in 1940. He died on 7 April 2007, in Huron, Beadle, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis, Meade, South Dakota, United States.

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Kenneth Euguene Wise
1930–2007
Clara Maass
1932–2020
Marriage: 15 March 1953

Sources (3)

  • Kenneth E Wise in household of Kenneth Wise, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Kenneth E Wise, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Kenths Eugne Wise, "South Dakota State Census, 1945"

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World Events (8)

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment

Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.

Name Meaning

English: nickname for a wise or learned person, from Middle English wise, wisse ‘wise’ (Old English wīs). This name has also absorbed Dutch Wijs and De Wijs, a nickname meaning ‘(the) wise’, and possibly cognates in other languages.

English: topographic name for someone who lived by the withies or willows, from Middle English withi, Old English wīthig ‘withy, willow’.

Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Weiss ‘white’.

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

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