When John Gawronski was born in 1925, in New Jersey, United States, his father, Stanley Gawronski, was 36 and his mother, Blanche Sliwa, was 28. He lived in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America in 1930. He died on 17 November 1986, in Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 61.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
"New Jersey was severely impacted by the Great Depression. In response to the economic woes of the country, President Franklin D Roosevelt issued a series of programs and regulations referred to as the ""New Deal"". One-tenth of the New Jersey population was already using New Deal programs by 1933."
Camp Kilmer was activated by the War Department in June 1942 following roughly one year of construction. The camp was named after Joyce Kilmer, a New Jersey poet from the 69th Infantry Regiment that had been killed during World War I. The post served as a place for soldiers to receive medical injections and supplies before loading onto ships headed to Europe. After the war, the camp remained active until the fall of 1949 to assist with processing troops that returned home from Europe.
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Casimir, Zygmunt, Andrzej, Beata, Jacek, Jerzy, Leszek, Stanislaus, Zigmund.
Polish (Gawroński): habitational name for someone fromGawrony, so named from Polish gawron ‘rook’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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