Brief Life History of Sidney Paul
When Sidney Paul Strand was born on 25 February 1929, in Akron, Plymouth, Iowa, United States, his father, Paul Kristian Strand, was 41 and his mother, Lucinda Elizabeth Irwin, was 32. He married Jennie van Velzen about 1954. He died on 7 July 1983, in Rock Rapids, Lyon, Iowa, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States.
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- Sidney P Strand, "United States 1950 Census"
- Sydney Paul Strand, "Iowa, Birth Records, 1921-1942"
- Sydney Strand, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1934 · The Grout Museum
The museum started as a private collection given to the city by Henry W. Grout. Today it is still a nonprofit educational museum that helps engage students and all people from the surrounding communities.
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
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Selmer, Johan, Lars, Aase, Berger, Bjorn, Iver, Knute, Ludvig, Morten.
North German, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for someone who lived by the seashore, from Middle Low German, Danish, Swedish strand ‘shore’. The Swedish name is mainly ornamental.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of a hundred or so farmsteads so named, from strand ‘shore’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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