Brief Life History of Irwin Justin
When Irwin Justin Lakin was born on 1 May 1921, in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Max Lakin, was 26 and his mother, Rose Bluestein, was 22. He died on 8 October 2002, in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 81.
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- Irwin in entry for Max Lakin, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
- Irwin in entry for Max Lakin, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
- Irwin J Lakin, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights
Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.
1944 · The G.I Bill
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.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Jewish Leykin (from Belarus), a metronymic from Leyke, a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Leye, from the Hebrew female personal name Lea, from which English Leah is derived (see Genesis 29: 16) + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Lawkin, a diminutive of Law- (a pet form of the personal name Laurence; see Lawrence ). Compare Law 1 and Larkin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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