Brief Life History of Donald James
When Donald James Furlong was born on 13 March 1926, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, his father, Raymond Patrick Furlong, was 33 and his mother, Agnes M Hoff, was 29. He married Anne Louise Bartecki on 27 August 1949, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. He died on 30 August 1985, in Hovland Township, Cook, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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- Donald J Furlong in household of Raymond P Furlong, "United States Census, 1930"
- Donald J. Furlong, "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002"
- Donald Furlong, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1931 · The Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
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: Irish Brendan, Donovan, Aidan, Eamon, Padric, Seamus.
English and Irish: from Middle English furlang, furlong ‘furlong’ (Old English furlang, from furh ‘furrow’ + lang ‘long’), the technical term for the block of strips owned by several different persons which formed the unit of cultivation in the medieval open-field system of farming, though it could also denote ‘race course’, particularly for foot races. Or a habitational name from a minor place called with this word, such as Furlong in Devon or Shropshire. The surname is now chiefly found in Ireland, where a family of this name settled at the end of the 13th century.
Altered form of French Ferland .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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